SOCIALISM??!!! Are You Fracking Kidding Me?!

03Nov08

Why on earth are these republicans dusting off the old Socialism talking point? This isn’t the Red Scare and 1950s McCarthyism! We aren’t fighting the Soviets! We have a graduated income tax. McCain is for a graduated income tax. His hero Teddy Roosevelt was ardently for a graduated income tax. For the McCain campaign to come out and call Obama’s tax plan socialism is a complete lie. I saw John McCain on Larry King and his explanation was pure double talk.

“MCCAIN: Well, that’s spreading the wealth in the respect that we do have a graduated income tax. That’s a far cry from taking from one group of Americans and giving to another. I mean, that’s dramatically different.
Sen. Obama clearly has talked about for years, redistributive policies.”
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“MCCAIN: But, do we want — taxes pay to keep our government secure. TO HELP THOSE WHO CAN’T HELP THEMSELVES.”

I added the capitalization for emphasis. This isn’t out of context. He supports the graduated income tax, saying that it is “not taking from one group of Americans and giving to another” and then says that taxes are used to “help those who can’t help themselves” which implies, services such as disability, unemployment, welfare, and social security. These are all taking taking money from one group and giving it to another through taxes. It is ridiculous to imply that the Obama’s tax plan is going to make our tax system socialistic. That would be implying that it wasn’t socialistic already, which is not true.

Under our current tax plan, Warren Buffet pays at a lower tax rate than his own secretary, and the McCain plan would make that permanent. We cannot afford that. It would considerably expand the deficit. “BUT cutting taxes increases revenue!” the conservatives say. However, if they actually pay attention to that theory, they would understand it’s based on the Laffer curve, and eventually, because it is a curve, it doesn’t work at the extremes.

And who are the Republicans to throw out the Socialism label? The neoconservative movement that is in control of the Republican party was founded by a bunch of Trostkyists: Straus, Kristol, etc. Trotsky was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a Marxist! You don’t get much more Socialist than that! Moreover, Sarah Palin taxes the oil companies and gives checks out to the people of Alaska, and she has the nerve to call Obama’s policy socialist!

While I’m ranting, I might as well mention this whole Muslim crap. He’s not a Muslim, so cut it out. Read snopes.com and do your fact-checking. But even if he was, so what if he’s Muslim? This is a country founded on the freedom from persecution of religious beliefs, and the freedom to believe whatever you want. And for those who say “well, it just signals to the terrorists that they’ve won,” that is completely short sighted assessment. Electing Obama would be the exact opposite. It will say to these terrorists that we are not afraid of the other, and we refuse to be divided by fear.

To quote Dr. Cornel West of Princeton, “Plato who had the most profound critique of democracy, not the most persuasive, but the most profound; said that we would create a society characterized by unruly passion and pervasive ignorance…he had a point.”

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