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gawd damn socialists
Anonymous
-For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama Barack the Wealth Spreader, seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the governments activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this years check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalistPhilip Gourevitch, of this magazinethat were set up, unlike other states in the union, where its collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (collectively, no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.
-During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBCs Hardball, a young woman asked him why her father, a doctor, should be penalized by being in a huge tax bracket. McCain replied that wealthy people can afford more and that the very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really dont pay nearly as much as you think they do. The exchange continued:
YOUNG WOMAN: Are we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism and stuff?. . . MCCAIN: Heres what I really believe: That when you reach a certain level of comfort, theres nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/11/03/081103taco_talk_hertzberg?printable=true
am i doing it "RIGHT"
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