I own a computer store. It is fairly small and not so profitable recently. In fact as our products have turned into a commodity it is very hard to make money any longer. But there are other places that sell computers, CostCo, Dell, Best Buy. These companies are big, they make tons of money and are very rich. They have tons of extra inventory just sitting there on their shelves. Now if I went out and decided to take some of that inventory from their store and put it on my shelves, it would help my employees keep their jobs, it would help my store make more money this month and it would be totally illegal and immoral. It is there stuff, I have no right to it.
But this is exactly what our government does but on a much grander scale. In fact if you are the big store, and you don’t them steal from you Joe Biden calls you unPatriotic. Yea if you are one of the people who will benifit from this plan I can see how you may support the Obama/Biden plan of taking more from the people who really make this economy work and giving it to the people who are middle class, or even those who choose not to work.
If you have any ethics you must see that this is simply another form of theft, the problem is that we have lived with it for about 63 years and people have become so used to it that they have become dependant on it. If you make more than 120k per you, or maybe even less you should expect your taxes to quickly go up. Obama says 250k in many speaches, 200k during his infomercial, and biden said 150k a few times last week, but now other written items from they say 120k. Once he takes office, if he wins, I think it will quick drop to 100k or 75k.
On a side note Bush made some tempoary tax cuts that were fairly large and they expire in 2010. When Obama says that he will not raise taxes to the middle and lower class he simply means that he will not add any new taxes BUT he is fully intending for the Bush tax cuts to be allowed to expire, in effect raising taxes, but HE did not do it….it has long been set in motion. This slick concept is not caught by most people.
Social Security is the worst kind of theft. It is a huge program that simply will NOT keep working much longer. Basically you have a shrinking group of hard working young people who are mostly working pay check to pay check hardly getting by. Then you have a growning group of older people who have had 40 years of high income earning, they mostly own a house and they have on average 10 times the assests of the first group. Who should give who money. Well, you guessed it, our government has it backwards, the hard working poorer working people give their money to the retired people who sit around and lead a life of leasure for the most part. The worst part is that they feel entitled to this life because that is what they have been told for decades, it is illogical and is the main cause to our problems but there is little that can be done to fix it.