To: Cage Rattler who wrote (5359 ) 10/30/2008 7:30:05 PM From: RetiredNow Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6579 Cage, looks like you bought the Republican spin, hook, line, and sinker. Think a bit before you pass judgment. Obama's tax plan will get us back to Clinton's tax structure, that was signed off on by a Republican Congress in the 1990's and brought us surpluses. That tax structure wasn't socialist then and it won't be when Obama implements it. Also, do you think your man, McCain, believes any differently? Well, I have proof that he believes in exactly the same thing Obama and the majority of Americans believe in, namely that a progressive tax structure is a good thing for Americans, which explains why we have had one my entire life...So please, don't join these others in this fake outrage over socialism. It's hypocritical.Like, Socialism newyorker.com Of course, all taxes are redistributive, in that they redistribute private resources for public purposes. But the federal income tax is (downwardly) redistributive as a matter of principle: however slightly, it softens the inequalities that are inevitable in a market economy, and it reflects the belief that the wealthy have a proportionately greater stake in the material aspects of the social order and, therefore, should give that order proportionately more material support. McCain himself probably shares this belief, and there was a time when he was willing to say so. During the 2000 campaign, on MSNBC's "Hardball," a young woman asked him why her father, a doctor, should be "penalized" by being "in a huge tax bracket." McCain replied that "wealthy people can afford more" and that "the very wealthy, because they can afford tax lawyers and all kinds of loopholes, really don't pay nearly as much as you think they do." The exchange continued: YOUNG WOMAN: Are we getting closer and closer to, like, socialism and stuff?. . . MCCAIN: Here's what I really believe: That when you reach a certain level of comfort, there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more.