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Title: Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’
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ABC News Blog.com
URL Source: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/obamas-new-atta.html
Published: Oct 31, 2008
Author: Jake Tapper, ABC's Senior News Correspon
Post Date: 2008-10-31 19:20:09 by scrapper2
Keywords: Obama & redistribution of weal, Marxism, keeping the fruits of your lab
Views: 618
Comments: 48
On the stump this week, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has pushed back against Sen. John McCain's description of his tax policies. "The reason that we want to do this, change our tax code, is not because I have anything against the rich," Obama said in Sarasota, Fla., yesterday. "I love rich people! I want all of you to be rich. Go for it. That’s the American 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. They can buy the products and services that businesses are selling and everybody is better off. All boats rise. That’s what happened in the 1990s, that’s what we need to restore. And that’s what I’m gonna do as president of the United States of America. "John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic," Obama continued. "You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness." It's unclear if this was a nod to the Ayn Rand book "The Virtue of Selfishness," with all that the invocation of Rand implies. It would seem to be, given the themes of Rand's work, what happens when independent achievers are demonized. Which would fit with this description of those who want to keep their hard-earned tax dollars as "selfish." Atlas may not be shrugging, but Obama is.
Poster Comment: Obama and Biden make quite a pair - soul mates - Joe says successful hard working people should want to pay higher taxes out of patriotism. Obama says it's selfish for successful Americans not to want to pay higher taxes because higher taxes allows the under class and illegal aliens to realize their dreams of getting other people's $ by doing nuthin.'
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#39. To: scrapper2 (#0)
Sure it is.
#40. To: Flintlock (#39)
Great cartoon Flintlock. I'll have to spread that around.
That would be funny if McCain wasn't also a global socialist.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestObama says it's selfish for successful Americans not to want to pay higher taxes because higher taxes allows the under class and illegal aliens to realize their dreams of getting other people's $ by doing nuthin.'
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