William Sullivan at American Thinker nails Obama and his fellow ideologues dead on.
... Disproportionately taxing the wealthy is a critical plank in the ideology of the left, and the reason for that is simple. When liberals think of George Bush, they think of big business destroying society. When they think of big business destroying society, they think of rich, corporate fat cats. And as much as they would love to, they are unable to send George Bush to the poor-house, so settling the score with the rich, corporate fat cats is the next best thing.
That's what it is all about: retribution. But the left can't just be forthright and say, "We want to steal rich people's money to get back at them." So they use rhetorical sleight-of-hand to conceal the fact that tax increases for the rich are about vengeance.
They generally position it as a moral issue or an issue of charity. But while they spend all their time talking about how it is only "right" for the wealthy to pay more in taxes, they completely ignore that a handful of people in Washington deciding on a whim to take more property from a specific group is wrong.
Perhaps that is why when they are out pitching upper-class tax hikes, they have usually been compelled to preface their arguments with an unsolicited disclosure that it's not to punish success. Take Chuck Schumer's recent declaration: "It's not that we want to punish wealthy people. We want to praise them."
Democrats want to "praise" successful individuals by disproportionately confiscating much more of their property? When a group of people is "praised" for success, they are generally given a reward, or perhaps applauded. They are not singled out, further stripped of their property, and demonized in an effort to use their possessions to provide for their anonymous neighbors' well-being. ...
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