In the recent editorial endorsing Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (Obama right candidate to lead country in 2009, SN 10/29), the editors have fallen victim to the same empty rhetoric that has captured the nation.
Here we have a candidate that does a lot of talking, but when the “uh“s have been removed, doesn’t really say anything substantive, and yet people love him. Never mind that he offers nothing concrete except socialism; he speaks with such conviction that people are compelled to bow down before him.
The tax plan you espouse, where the rich should pay more, is in fact already in place. The rich already pay more than the middle class in taxes, both in quantity and percentage, but Obama wants more. He sets an arbitrary line above which one is classified “rich,” but an arbitrary line can be drawn anywhere with equal validity in the eyes of the one who draws it. This means the “rich” level could conveniently be lowered if Obama’s tax-and-spend government needs more money. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said it best: “I think there are a lot of very rich people out there whom we can tax at a point down the road and recover some of this money.” Recover?
It’s dangerous when the government feels this entitled to citizens’ money. After all is said and done, the richest among us will be those who received Obama’s free handout checks for not working. But that’s not a handout. It’s a bribe for your vote.
Jason Smolinski
astrophysics graduate student
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