Posted on 10/19/2008 8:19:07 PM PDT by Crazieman
John McCain now says it's socialism, but Barack Obama insists, "When you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
Forty-four percent (44%) of voters agree with Obamas statement while 42% disagree in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Democrats think their candidate is right, but 78% of Republicans disagree.
While Obama was campaigning recently, a plumbers assistant named Joe Wurzelbacher asked the Democratic presidential nominee a critical question about his tax policy. Obama defended the policy, saying in part, "When you spread the wealth around, its good for everybody. McCain brought the incident up in the final presidential debate last Wednesday, and "Joe the Plumber" suddenly was a central figure in the closing days of the presidential campaign.
A majority of those who earn less than $40,000 a year agree with Obama about spreading the wealth around, while most of those who earn more than that disagree. Entrepreneurs are strongly opposed while a slight plurality of government employees agree.
Sixty-three percent (63%) of voters under 30 agree with Obamas statement while 33% disagree. A plurality of those over 30 take the opposite view.
(Excerpt) Read more at rasmussenreports.com ...
Oh wow. This is what college does to kids.
*sigh*
Its always been this way. Young folks with nothing think socialism is great.
Acquire something through hard work and you start to reevaluate that stance.
Hide yr. money
It is not over yet. When the young see that spreading the wealth means taking their wealth they will change their minds.
And big allowances, also.
Remember, "If you're 20 and conservative, you have no heart. If you're 40 and a liberal, you have no brain."
eh, whatever to Rasmussen and his polls.
Just in time to tell us the Joe The Plumber attack will not work.
Riiight.
But ask your favorite college student if their grade point should be subject to this type of treatment.....say take a point or two off a hard-earned "A" and give it to the guy who gets drunk all the time and never studies..it's only FAIR, isn't it?
The late great United States of America.....didn’t even last 250 years.
I’ve seen this first hand. An entire generation raised to believe they can get something for nothing while other people work. Disgusting.
Wonderful news. I hope this poll is as accurate as his presidential race polls.
Yeah, and what happens when everyone is sitting around waiting for the wealth to spread and no one is creating wealth?
I figured this was the case, as I was telling my wife that no one under 30 really knows anything about the USSR.
Che Guevara is cool, and no one knows who Adam Smith is.
Our unionist government schools have done to us what the Soviets were never able to do. We’ve become a nation of unrepentent marxist thieves.
Yup, I was a socialist in college too, then I graduated and got a job.....socialism went into the trashbin immediately.
College youth won’t have wealth for quite a while given how much many of them have to borrow to finish college. A friend of mine has a son in medical school who will owe $200,000 to $250,000 at the end of his 4 years. It is a question whether students with this problem will favor some government financial help up front (Dem), or holding on to more of what they make years down the line (Rep.).
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