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Date Posted: 20:57:16 11/05/08 Wed
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: redistribution of wealth
In reply to: AssieKay 's message, "Re: redistribution of wealth" on 16:59:27 11/05/08 Wed

>I never heard John McCain use the term redistribution
>of wealth. I think that's what riled a lot of people
>when Obama said it.

Obama was just being honest... any graduated income tax (and really, any tax at all) is a redistribution of wealth. That doesn't mean it's a bad thing. He's just talking about rolling the tax rates for the rich back to what they were before Bush's cuts, which McCain rightly criticized in 2001 for being too generous to the wealthy.

McCain, on the other hand, reversed course from his 2001 philosophy and went for a much more generous plan for the wealthy in exchange for giving the middle class a smaller cut than Obama would, and then criticized Obama for supporting McCain's 2001 philosophy. Then McCain tried to claim he was the only one looking out for the working people, when all of the independent studies showed that Obama's plan helps them more.

I just have no idea why McCain was trying to claim he was the one trying to help out the working class (Joe the Plumber and Tito the Builder, etc.), while simultaneously promoting a tax plan that was much more generous to the wealthiest citizens than to the middle class. It seemed like a very hypocritical position to me, especially when the position McCain criticized in 2008 was his own position from 2001.

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