Originally Posted by ijusluvit

Richie, you're off the deep end again. You get hooked every time on this "Marxist' crap, and "stealing from those who have sweated for every one of their billion dollars'.
Calm down. Recognize that no country can exist without effective ways of recirculating it's wealth directly and continuously into it's domestic economy. Those who have amassed great wealth (and I won't even mention how high the percentage of them did little or no work to acquire it) were able to do so BECAUSE of the stability and security of their nation. They would not have achieved that wealth if they lived in Somalia. The privilege of living in a protected free enterprise system therefore requires paying something back. Some taxes. You accept that, right? But the facts are that those who have wealth, many in amounts which they cannot even calculate or ever spend, are paying less in taxes than at any time in history. Many are sitting on millions they don't even pay attention to, depriving the economy of their stimulus. Many spend millions out of the country on business and luxury items, to further avoid taxes and deprive the domestic economy of what they are capable of contributing at little or no sacrifice.

A country doesn't remain great if large segments contribute little. Many millions of lower and middle class folks work hard for every dollar. Contrary to what some say here, that most of those people pay no taxes, they all pay a significant amount of their modest incomes in sales taxes, interest fees etc., just trying to survive. The proportional sacrifices of the wealth are of no comparison.

Despite your repeated insistence, Obama is not a socialist or a marxist. He is a moderate forced to accept the unhappy agenda left him but previous administrations, namely that we have to move back toward the center where enough money is circulated to finally overcome the recession and begin to reduce the deficit.