[Vision2020] Obama cancels interview with a Free (not in the tank) Press

[Paul Rumelhart]

No Weatherman wrote:
> Chas:
>
> Ummmm.
>
> It's always easier to play poker with someone else's chips.
>
> Someday, if you're ever rakin in the dough, you'll resent the
> government confiscating your hard earned money to finance crackheads
> and welfare queens.
>   

Is it somehow better for the middle class to finance the "crackheads and 
welfare queens"?  That's what it comes down to.  Someone has to pay for 
this war and the after effects of a tanking economy.  Who does it make 
more sense to tax more?  The richest of the bunch who can stand to lose 
more without facing hunger or eviction or having their power turned off, 
or the majority of people that are just trying to make it from paycheck 
to paycheck?

I think the system is better when it tries to help people who are down 
on their luck, despite the fact that some people abuse the system.  Not 
everyone believes that having wealth means you're any better of a person 
than not having it.  You're just luckier.  When fate deals you a rotten 
hand, even temporarily, it's in society's best interests to help you 
through it.

Of course, no one knows even remotely how much you make and which 
financial camp you fall in, because no one knows who you are.

Paul

>
> On 10/25/08, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 17:07, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  > West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe the Plumber,
>>  > about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how Obama
>>  > isn't being a Marxist with the "spreading the wealth" comment.
>>
>>
>> We already spread the wealth.  It's called taxes.  Obama is merely
>>  proposing spreading the wealth more equitably.
>>
>>     
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