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Title: Obama's New Attack on Those Who Don't Want Higher Taxes: ‘Selfishness’
Source: 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: 639
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)

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.'

Sure it is.

Flintlock  posted on  2008-10-31   22:51:24 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Flintlock (#39)

That would be funny if McCain wasn't also a global socialist.

Dakmar  posted on  2008-10-31   22:53:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Dakmar (#41)

That would be funny if McCain wasn't also a global socialist.

But Palin isn't

BTW What about Biden....LOL

Flintlock  posted on  2008-10-31   23:23:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Flintlock (#43) (Edited)

BTW What about Biden....LOL

What about Lieberman? You still think there are two distinct major parties, don't you? How completely fucking silly.

Dakmar  posted on  2008-10-31   23:31:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Dakmar (#44)

What about Lieberman?

I told you I've met him...he's a little twerp

You still think there are two distinct major parties, don't you?

I know who is going to steal my money and who is going to let me keep it, that's enough for me.

How fucking silly.

Life is silly, come visit me for a few days and I'll show you how to fish for the big ones (assuming I can kick stangelove out of your "room")

Flintlock  posted on  2008-10-31   23:47:18 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Flintlock (#45)

You still think there are two distinct major parties, don't you?

I know who is going to steal my money and who is going to let me keep it, that's enough for me.

What about Lieberman?

I told you I've met him...he's a little twerp

...........and you're a gigantic twit. Both wings of our one party are stealing us blind and you believe one of them is letting you keep your money. Comedy Central is looking for people with your kind of retarded thinking.

Bet they taught you that in kindergarten 101.

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