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Monday, October 27, 2008

WHAT RELEVANCE A 2001 OBAMA NPR INTERVIEW ON THE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH?


What Obama’s 2001 NPR interview does is provide historical context to his recent stump remarks to Joe the Plumber—establishing not a slip of the tongue but an abiding political philosophy to redistribute wealth. Moreover, to increase taxes to fund government programs is one thing, but to raise taxes on the upper middle class in order to send $10,000 checks to Americans who owe no taxes is quite another. It is called socialism, and America has fought wars to prevent the proliferation of this political philosophy.

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