> Obama said, "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from > the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody. If you've got a > plumbing business, you're gonna be better off if you're gonna be better > off if you've got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire > you, > and right now everybody's so pinched that business is bad for everybody > and I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for > everybody."
It was only the choice of words that was unfortunate--what he's saying there is almost indisputably accurate. Is there anything in that statement that you find to be factually incorrect? > Sounds to me like he advocates using the tax code for wealth > redistribution. No, sounds to me like he was stating facts. The tax code -is- for wealth redistribution. That's what progressive taxation is all about. Been around since Keynes, with roots much further back than that. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
