When Joe the Plumber emerged as the everyman railing against Obama???s ???one-step-closer-to-socialist??? tax program, progressives were quick to jump. We jumped on him because he wasn???t really a plumber, he wasn???t anywhere near buying a plumbing business, and that in the life he actully lived, Obama???s tax plan would be better for him than McCain???s. We thought it was just another case of the working class voting against their own self interest. What we failed to grasp is that Joe the Plumber was
By Jerry Del CollianoBarack Obama is being slammed by John McCain and Fox News Channel for wanting to take from the very rich and give to the poor — or spreading the wealth.He denies it.I kind of like it — and remember I’m talking as a guy with Clear Channel’s money.I like this idea of spreading the wealth for the radio industry.So I’d like to run for President of Radio’s Conscience. Here is my platform for spreading the wealth. Warning: you have entered a “no win” zone. You may like thes
CNN Crunches Obama and McCain Tax Plans The only question is as to sustaining the change [to higher taxes] before the people. I believe it can be sustained, because it does not increase the tax upon the “many poor” but upon the “wealthy few” . . . ~ Letter to William S. Wait, March 2, 1839, reprinted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, volume 1, p. 148. Rutgers University Press. (1953, 1990). I go for all sharing the privileges of government who assist in bearing its burdens. ~
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