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Anna Keppa
2008-08-28 13:41:44

Repeat after me, Jim:

Obama’s and Democrats’ policy of income re-distribution taking bazillions from the upper 50% of wage earners who pay 95% of the income taxes, and giving it to those on the lower 50% who pay the other 5% is socialism.

(If you can offer a philosophical reason as to why it is ethical and good to steal from one group and give to another, have at it.)

So are their dirigiste (and crackpot) policy proposals for ending the use of oil in ten years, for carbon taxes, for thwarting development of our own oil.

So is their proposed nationalized healthcare, something that has failed everywhere it’s been tried.

So is Barack’s proposed new national service that all young Americans would have to join.

Those things are NOT “limited” government, Jim, they are socialism.