[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL: "Spread the Wealth" or "The horse is dead, stop the beating"

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--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Ben Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com> wrote:

> From: Ben Cittadino <bcittadino at dcs-law.com>
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL: "Spread the Wealth" or "The horse is dead, stop the beating"
> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
> Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 4:18 PM
> Boys and Girls;
> Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution authorizes the
> CONGRESS to lay
> and collect taxes. All tax complaints should be directed to
> your Congressman
> or Senator.
> 
> The President can certainly recommend tax legislation and
> tax policy, but
> the term "spread the wealth" has been twisted out
> of all sensible
> interpretation on this forum.  The tax laws have always
> been used to
> encourage certain activity, and discourage other activity.
> They have been
> set up to treat different groups disparately based upon
> whether they earn
> their money by their labor or by clipping coupons.  This is
> basic stuff
> right?
> 
> When Obama said spread the wealth he did not say, or mean,
> or suggest, that
> the government is going to "confiscate our wealth and
> give it away".  He was
> saying that everyone must pay their fair share.  It takes a
> super tortured
> reading of his tax proposals to get there from here.  The
> wealthy have
> gotten a big break during the Bush tax cut years. How we
> cut taxes and fight
> two wars at the same time is how we increase the federal
> deficit. It may
> have been good for Halliburton, but it hasn't been good
> fiscal policy.  We
> can't get the money from poor people (they don't
> have any), so those of us
> lucky or talented enough to own Rhodes 22's (note
> SAILING reference
> Metaphor) have to pay alittle (not a lot) more. You
> won't even notice it.
> 
> These references to marxism and what-all just seem a bit
> hysterical.  
> 
> I notice there haven't been any replys to my post which
> actually described
> the tax policies of both candidates. Too much heat and not
> enough light on
> this subject if you ask me. (I know; who asked me?)
> 
> Ben C.
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