Defining wealth as that which can be bought and sold (we don't count how many friends you have as "wealth" - other societies do)
You are really getting ridiculous. A person engaging in a voluntary transaction with another person where something of value is traded for something else of value, is not 'wealth redistribution.' it is called free market economics.
Defining wealth as that which can be bought and sold (we don't count how many friends you have as "wealth" - other societies do)
Any law that usurps your labor by usurping the fruits of your labor, for the sole purpose of redistributing the fruits of your labor to another person, whether it be in the form of health care or food stamps, is wealth redistribution.
That's why, when our government was founded, it was financed solely by a tax on Commerce. The tax on income was instituted under Woodrow Wilson another Marxist, almost as bad as Obama, and it's economic havoc ever since.
The only entity that can force you to transfer wealth involuntarily is the government.
Passing laws that define what is and is not "prvate (sic) property"
Passing laws on how such propety is distributed
More Marxism ideology, which you apparently are an expert on.
You do realize that except for Obamas 14mo long "stimulus" we are operating under CONSERVATIVE GOP FISCAL Policy right?
Really? The 850 billion dollar stimulus package was not a one time spending increase. It raised the base line spending of the Federal government and has forever been enshrined in each year's federal spending. That's exactly why the Democrat Senate won't pass a budget; they want to keep hiding this dirty little secret. How the hell do you think Obama's government spending resulted in such a massive increase in debt and deficit and increased annual spending by over a trillion dollars a year?
Same tax rates as the GOP COnservatives passed in 2002 that gave us 6 years of 22% below average GDP growth
Same goverment spending policies that the GOP Conservatives passed 2002 with the exception of spending on extended unemployment
Same pentagon budget for the same two wars.
More BS.
GDP growth depends on a hell of a lot more than simply tax rates. You would have to be a complete ignoramus to believe higher tax rates promote higher GDP growth because: 1) you would have to believe that the government is more capable of spending an individual's money BETTER than the individual himself is; and 2) the government is more capable of deciding what actions an individual should engage in better than the individual is.
If that is how dumbed down liberals are, then there really is no hope for them.
And again, where is either Europe or the USA nationalizing any production? Because that's the definition of socialism.
There are different forms of socialism, in Europe, and in what Obama is trying to inflict on us, rather than own the means of production, they simply confiscate the fruits of that production by taxation.
you are just name calling like McCarthy.
Tail gunner Joe McCarthy was about 75% right and 25% wrong.
Especially after he started hitting the bottle.
Read Whittaker Chamber autobiography "Witness" and you will get a real good insight into the Communist Party USA. They have a long and storied history of alliance with labor unions and the Democrat Party by the way. Obama's mother was one, his father was a Marxist, and after his father left to try to inflict Marxism in Kenya, he was indoctrinated by Frank Marshall Davis for most of his younger days.
So, the fact that he's turning this country into a 3rd world Marxist Pigsty should not be surprising to anyone.
I don't even want to think about what this country will look like if he were to get another 4 years.
Electricity shortages, a Greece like debt situation, increasing poverty, food shortages. homelessness. That's the historical end to what he's inflicting on us.
And I'm gonna work very hard to make sure that doesn't happen.
