No wonder Obama wants to avoid having us believe the reality that his tax proposals represent income redistribution, taking from some, giving to others. According to one Gallup poll, Americans oppose this in principle, 84% to 13%. If you don't want this to happen, you may want to consider this in your decision on whom to vote for.
Here are some of Obama's own words about his views on using the power of the federal government to redistribute income from one group to another, from a radio interview in 2001: “The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf...And one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which to bring about redistributive change.”
If you believe in constitutional government, and that constitutions mean what they say, this should send a very cold shiver down your spine...
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