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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Good question Hound
	Date:	3/13/2009 10:20:29 PM

What I am specifically referring to is the approach that George Bernard Shaw warned us about.....If you rob from Peter to pay Paul, you can always count on the support of Paul. In this case Peter is the Federal taxpayer and Paul is people who pay no federal taxes.

What liberals do is talk about how the rich need to "pay their fair share" and that the rich "were just lucky and won life's lottery". And therefore we Democrats, being for the little guy, have to raise taxes on the rich. Obama has this down to perfection. So while the upper 5% of income earners currently pay 80% of all federal taxes, that is not enough for Dems. So they use class envy (i.e., I envy what the "rich" have), therefore I support any government taxation scheme that takes more from the rich, especially if they will give it to me in form of cash, goods or services that I don't have to pay for.

But wait you say, many rich people also say they support higher taxes. Two comments on that truth. First, they almost always support the taxation of income and not wealth so it really doesn't impact them anyway. Second, the use of class envy is really the means to pursue perpetual political power. When we reach the point in this country where over 50% of working people pay no federal income taxes we are doomed. We are currently at 40%. Obama plans to take it to over 50%.

So right now the "rich" already pay the vast majority of all taxes and yet Obama/Reid/Pelosi want even more and are using class envy to garner support for this scheme. I could go on for hours about why it is the wrong thing to do but thats for another time.