Distribute the wealth?
This is extremely dangerous, what Robin Obama Hood wants to do.

Can you say trickle-down taxation?

Taxing the big guys will obviously mean they will raise their prices, which means everybody will pay more.
Big corporations may no longer donate to scholarship funds and may have to start laying people off.

How is this a good thing?

Mecheng's tax plan...

Take the record profits from the oil companies, who have been stealing from the public during the last 10 years...

Take the golden parachutes and insanely extravagant salaries from the CEO's of failed banks, which the public is now forced to bail out...

Take the profits from the contractors like Halliburton, who received no-bid contracts for work related to the illegal war in Iraq...

Take the equivalent profits from the 2/3 of the corporations, who are not paying any taxes...

Take the equivalent profits from the beyond-wealthy, the top 0.5% who own 95% of the country's wealth, who also are not paying any taxes...

And distribute that money equitably among the public, who have had to scratch and claw just to remain in their homes, pay for heat & electricity, and try to put food on their tables while having to watch time and time again, the ultra-wealthy criminals continue to steal from the poor without CONSEQUENCE, all the while living a life of unimaginable luxury...

And put these criminals BEHIND BARS, once and for all, where they belong...

And re-write the tax law completely and from scratch to make it FAIR and EQUITABLE, eliminating the refunds, rebates, etc, and the loop holes that only the privileged & the rich know about.

That's my tax plan... To allow EVERYONE to actually have a chance in this country... not just the criminal corporations and CEOs and the ultra-rich. The reason taxes are the way they are, and the reason nobody wants REAL change, is because the ultra-wealthy don't want anyone else to have a piece of their pie. So they say this is a redistribution of wealth, and it's unamerican, blah, blah, blah...

Originally posted by Constitutional Scholar

It is a redistribution of wealth. It is not only unconstitutional, it is a head-up-ass line of thinking. Everyone has a chance to succeed. Life isnt fair, and it isnt the governments job to make it that way.

What in the heck do you call the BailOut. They redistributed the Tax Payers wealth to these companies that couldn't hold thier own!

This is a joke you say

Why not just admit you are a lower than pond scum socialist?

The government makes Private debt public and public money private what do we call that? ROBBERY!!

Oh but it's what the economy needs to survive pfft what BS.

Originally posted by Constitutional Scholar
It is a redistribution of wealth. It is not only unconstitutional, it is a head-up-ass line of thinking.

Man, if I have to hear about "redistribution of wealth" one more time, I'm going to blow a gasket! The redistribution has already been done right in front of our noses with the "bailout". It has already happened. The funny thing is, it is the middle class that gets bent over every time. They have already taxed the middle class to oblivion to pay for the excessive vices of the very elite and wealthy. So, one redistribution is okay, but another that might actually help the common man on the streets isn't? Wow...

Everyone has a chance to succeed. Life isnt fair, and it isnt the governments job to make it that way.

I agree with you up to a point... some people have a much better chance of success than others. Depends on which neighborhood you are from, and who you know. If you are a friend of the neocons, you have a much better chance of success than the average Joe trying to pay his mortgage and send his kids to college. The government's job is to keep us safe and maintain the "commons". Surely as a Constitutional Scholar, you should know this.

Why is it supporters of Obamas policy always bring up the bailout when Obamas socialist proposals are mentioned? Is sticking to the topic at hand too much to ask?

Want to talk about the bailout? Start another thread. You are defending socialism with more of the same.

Why cant you Obama supporters just defend the merits of his policy?

Oops, because there are none.

in my opinion it is not that people who are poor don't do anything for themselves... it is terribly hard to escape the paycheck to paycheck lifestyle.
my family has been poor/ middle class for as long as i can remember. yes we pay our taxes. and this became worse when we left my dad and moved out and had nothing but a bag of clothes and a apartment. sleeping on the floor. 6 years later we have a well furnished town home, new car and all the other good things, because me and my mother work fulltime jobs. but we are in debit so almost all the money out of the next pay check is already spent (bills, debt and food)

I'm just bringing this to your attention. not everyone just doesnt do for themselves it is very hard be wealthy. especially when you have a mother and a ill grandmother who live with you who rely on your income.