The Debate - Granite Grok

The Debate

I’m not live blogging this….but I am REAL glad (and will do a post later) that McCain brought up Joe the Plumber! Obama is a lying weasal for trying to state that most small businesses earn less than $250L / year.  McCain has to keep hitting this – over and over again.

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"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream." 

"It’s not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."

Sure,and I’m the tooth fairy.  He’s going to spread the wealth around by a package of REFUNDABLE tax credits that will give people a check for not paying taxes. 

What Obama just told small business owners "Your success is not your own – it is the Government’s to use for others."

So, Obama, what is the incentive for small biz owners to now work harder and create more jobs if YOU are just going to take it from them via manipulating the tax code again.

It is "welfare by tax refund".   Obama conflates charity with government largesse.  He is saying that HE, Obamessiah, knows how to better be charitable with someone else’s money than that someone else.

Last time I knew, that was called wealth redistribution….a key component of socialism.

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