"spread the wealth" means FROM the WEALTHY to the rest of us.

[LynnTheDem]

NO MORE TAX CUTS for the 5% filthy rich.

It means TAX CUTS FOR THE REST OF US.


And have ya noticed how the rightwingery hasn't bothered to mention that "Joe the Plumber" has admitted --on-camera-- that Sen. Obama's tax cut plan BENEFITS JOE? That's quite strange, since one would think the republicans are aware that Joe the Plumber did admit that. And republicans are all about the truth and facts, you betcha.












Not so much.

[Union Thug]

1. It seems so obvious, but some people just don't get it.

Conservative economic policies have been redistributing the wealth upwards since RayGun amped up his war on the working class. "Spreading the wealth" is the opposite and recognizes that an economy cannot function without money in the hands of the masses.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Lower-income Republicans are delusional.

One of their most popular and widespread delusions is that God is about to recognize their obvious virtue and elevate them to the magic 1%, and they aren't gonna want high taxes when they get there.

[sandnsea]

2. And that he's been on welfare

"You know? I grew up poor. You know I actually have been on welfare, you know, my parents, you know, a couple different times,"

and has friends who use social services and that he believes in those services...

"They're taking -- you know, I mean, childcare away. They're taking the food away. I mean, you know, so you don't really -- you're not wanting them to succeed, you're penalizing them.

I believe in social issues. I believe in social works. I mean I think it needs reforming something fierce. You know I have friends, you know, that, you know, make so much money, but if they make just a couple dollars more?"


http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/joe_the_plumber_on_hannity_col.html

[stray cat]

4. Giving me a break on my taxes on money I work for isn't welfare or socialism

No one is taking the money from someone else to give to me. Besides the tax breaks over the last 8 years are disproportionatly favoring the super wealthy and no one is calling that spreading the wealth or socialism.

[crazy_vanilla]

5. If they are sooo religious - wasn't that the Jesus doctrine again?

But I guess right wing nuts only pick whatever suits them out of the Bible.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. "Paying their fair share" is the right way to say it.

Some right winger of days gone by came up with the absurd notion that cutting taxes for GM somehow forces them to add another shift at the Escalade plant.

It assumes that jobs are sent to Mexico and India because taxes are too high here. It ignores the sub poverty wages paid in those countries as incentive.

No company ever laid people off when their product is in high demand, and low taxes for the top 5% doesn't create a demand for goods and services.

I don't know how stupid a Barstool Republican has to be to buy into supply side economics.

[kundalinirising]

7. If it was announced that America was going to become Socialist, I'd be a happy camper

I am clueless why the "S" word is synonymous with evil incarnate but I guess I'm just a little wacky that way...

[Cresent City Kid]

8. Its come down to a referendum on trickle-down

The argument they're making is that higher taxes on the wealthy will mean a loss of jobs and investment in business. The unspoken implication is that this is a mathematically logical result, but it is really a threat. If their taxes go up, why don't they invest some of the other money they have?

Is it really true that every rich person will reduce their investment in the economy by exactly the amount of the tax increase? Even if it worked that way, isn't that a choice rather than a necessity? Are they so entitled to the exact amount of after-tax profits, that they will tank the economy to save it?

The wealthiest 5% have plenty money to feed and shelter their families, pay Clinton-era taxes, invest, and save outrageous sums.

The perceived entitlement to after-tax savings is the threat to jobs and investment, not Obama's tax plan.

[WinkyDink]

9. Smart people of both Parties know this. But the Republicans don't want the IGNORANT AMONGST THEM to

learn how they are being PILLAGED by the ultra-rich!!

So---"SOCIALISM" became the cynical war-cry from Team McCain.

[markevil]

10. Spreading the wealth has only up-side for me....

[Sinistrous]

11. Aha! I see you are one of those evil class warfare warriors.

:sarcasm:

[dansolo]

12. The Republicans are trying to equate it with welfare

They frame the debate to suggest that the money is going to be taken from the middle class and given to the poor. It is simple class warfare--pit the middle class against the poor, so they ignore how much the rich are screwing them all.