Posted on 10/15/2008 8:22:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Conservatives yesterday ripped Obama after he was caught on video telling an Ohio plumber that he intends to take the profits of small-business owners and "spread the wealth around" to those with lesser incomes.
The fracas over Obama's tax plan broke out Sunday outside Toledo when Joe Wurzelbacher approached the candidate.
Wurzelbacher said he planned to become the owner of a small plumbing business that will take in more than the $250,000 amount at which Obama plans to begin raising tax rates.
"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the blue-collar worker asked.
...Obama responded that it would...
Critics said Obama let the cat out of the bag.
"It's clear that his main goal is redistribution of wealth, not growth," said Andy Roth with the anti-tax group Club for Growth. "He's perfectly happy to destroy wealth as long as he can redistribute it."
Obama has been meticulous, Roth said, to conceal the "socialistic" nature of his tax plans. "But every once in a while, he lets it slip," he said.
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Ta, da, da, da, da, da, whoo
I steal from the rich and give to the needy
(He takes a wee percentage) but I’m not greedy
I rescue pretty damsels, man, I’m good
What a guy, ha-ha, Monsieur Hood
Break it down
I like an honest fight and a saucy little maid
What he’s basically saying is he likes to get...paid
So, when an ogre in the bush grabs a lady by the tush
That’s bad, that’s bad, that’s bad, that’s bad
When a beauty’s with a beast it makes me awfully mad
He’s mad, he’s really mad
Now I’ll take my blade and ram it through your heart
Keep your eyes on me, boys, ‘Cause I’m about to staaa...
No, the plumber dude should have said “That’s a load of crap and I know it when I see it!”
How true. The flip side is:
The only reason people don't work is socialism.
Actually the Disney version had Robin Hood stealing from the king’s bags (taxes) to give back to the people where it had been taken.
BTW I LOVE that movie!
Just watch Robin Hood: Men in Tights. The image of the corrupt king and sheriff levying oppressive, controlling taxes on the populace comes through loud and clear. And hilariously.
Well, I see your point, but I have to disagree with you. Obama is taking from the government and giving to the people. Obama simply uses the IRS to fund the gov't. He would say, "I don't collect taxes!" Robin hood gave someone else's riches to the masses -- just like Obama.
Had Robin Hood stopped the tax collectors from collecting taxes, I would say you had an excellent point.
It’s a shame that so many misuse the Robin Hood story as stealing from the rich to give to the poor.
Robin Hood robbed the tax collector (in this case Obama) and gave the money back to those the tax collectpr had taken it from.
Where is Robin now?
“Spread the wealth around” ...........if McLame doesn’t harp on that he’s “erratic and unsteady”
McCain will reach across the aisle to protect his decent friend, who we have no need to fear.
“The only reason socialism doesn’t work is people.”
It’ll work if you kill half the population like Pol Pot. [okay, I lied — even then, Socialism does not work]
See what happens when you let the great one get more than 3 feet from his teleprompter? The truth accidentally comes forth from his mouth. Gee, what a shame...
EXCELLENT!!!
FMCDH(BITS)
Obama is taking from the people to give to other people. The government is sacrificing nothing. The villain is the rich.
Robin Hood took from the tax collector, and gave back to those from whom taxes were collected. That’s a tax cut. He wasn’t redistributing, he was refunding.
>> Had Robin Hood stopped the tax collectors from collecting taxes, I would say you had an excellent point.
The primary villain was the Sheriff of Nottingham — the tax collector who took money from working stiffs to fill government coffers.
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Hey Barack, my name is Atlas. Guess what I will do if you get elected. Redistribute this.
I will read about the debate online. My bp and digestive tract cannot take another night of letting odumbo get away with all his lies. Hopefully McCain will take a lesson from Gov Palin and fight
At least ten years...
Agreed....strange,how McCain talks tough at rallies but looks so uncomfortable in NObama’s presence. It’s as if the Messiah sucks all of McCain’s 02 out of the room or something. I’ll be damned if i’d let that socialist dirtbag imtimidate me,especailly if I had been through everything McCain’s been through.He’s a pretty tough guy.
McCain’s gotta have his act together tonight,there’s no doubt about it. I prayed long and hard on the way to work this morning.
Probably will TIVO it just in case it does go against us so I don’t have to watch it.
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