Except it isn't. Obama wants to raise taxes on the rich, but even if he gets everything he wants, what will get collected amounts to only 8 days worth of federal government operations.rEvolutionist wrote:I think this just highlights the class rhetoric that some people believe in. Some people obviously view "redistribution" not as an attempt to help the poor, but as an attempt to punish the rich. I think that's paranoia.
What you don't understand is that the wealthy are the goose that lays the golden egg...again and again...reliably...every single year, but Obama is planning on slaughtering the goose precisely as a short-term punishment for "the wealthy" based on his Marxist Progressive plans and intentions. If Obama simply seized all the money that the top 1 percent have, it wouldn't make a dent in his multi-trillion dollar deficit...and then the wealthy wouldn't be wealthy any more, they would be part of the dependent class and all that cash Obama stole won't begin to replace the permanent revenue stream from businesses and corporations that actually keeps the country running.
One of the biggest reasons the economy still sucks is because the wealthy (and corporations) have withdrawn their capital from the markets so as to both have reserves on which to operate when the economy once again goes into recession, and also to deny the Obamanation the tax revenues that Obama wants to use to fund his Marxist social welfare plans. No investment, no interest earnings. No interest earnings, no income. No income, no tax due. It ain't rocket science and the wealthy (and corporations) can hang on for another few years while sitting on their capital precisely to deny Obama his needed tax revenues.
So, you can slaughter the goose and have a grand celebratory meal over Obama's electoral victory while lighting cigars with $100 bills, and then be even more completely fucked than you were before, or you can feed the goose and keep it happily producing golden eggs every day on into eternity.
Obama's stupidly (though predictably) chosen the former course because his intent is not to serve the poor or the middle class, his intent is to humble the US, bring it to its economic knees, and punish it for its colonial presumptions while participating in the creation of a one-world Marxist government. What Obama doesn't understand is that he's a Marxist useful idiot to the REAL powers behind the throne: The globalist banking industry and people like George Soros, who ACTUALLY want to run the world...for their own financial benefit.