Obama: Opposing Higher Taxes 'Selfishness'

NewsMax ^ | October 31, 2008 | Phil Brennan

[2ndDivisionVet]

Barack Obama says if you don't want to hike your taxes, you're selfish.

Speaking in Sarasota, Fla., Thursday, Obama said he wanted to change the tax code to help the middle class and charged that in opposing his tax raising programs, Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin were making a "virtue out of selfishness."

Writing in the ABC News Political Punch blog, senior national correspondent Jake Tapper reported that Obama insisted that he has nothing against the rich.

"The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich," Obama said, adding, "I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the America dream, that’s the American way, that’s terrific.

"The point is, though, that — and it’s not just charity, it’s not just that I want to help the middle class and working people who are trying to get in the middle class — it’s that when we actually make sure that everybody’s got a shot — when young people can all go to college, when everybody’s got decent health care, when everybody’s got a little more money at the end of the month — then guess what? Everybody starts spending that money, they decide maybe I can afford a new car, maybe I can afford a computer for my child.

[phoenix0468]

Yes and Yes.

[MrB]

See, that’s what I’d like to challenge his supporters with -

0bama says that he would be accused of being a communist because he shared toys and a sandwich in kindergarten (in Kenya).

Is he TOO STUPID to know the difference between voluntary sharing and forced confiscation and collectivism?

Or does he just think all his supporters are too stupid to understand the difference?

[MrB]

Yep, the difference in the parties couldn’t be summed up better than

USA! USA!
vs
WE WANT PIE! WE WANT PIE!

[MrB]

Socialism is at its essence, covetousness.

And those who seek power through the promises of socialism are worse than the covetors - they are ENCOURAGING covetousness (sin/evil).

They then promise to STEAL the property of others,

and then they LIE and tell people that the people will be getting their “share” of it.

[MrB]

through the looking glass, or just given our country over to evil?

Isa 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good
and good evil,
who put darkness for light
and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet
and sweet for bitter.

[DivaDelMar]

"Opposing higher taxes is selfishness but being a multimillionaire and not helping relatives in poverty isn’t?"

Did you really have to point that out? DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO. Signed, The "O"