And make no mistake – that is not something that applies only to those making over $250,000 a year. It actually applies to the paycheck of every American.

"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the plumber asked, complaining that he was being taxed "more and more for fulfilling the American dream."

"It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success too," Obama responded. "My attitude is that if the economy's good for folks from the bottom up, it's gonna be good for everybody ... I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

In other words, Barack Obama is going to decide how much success you as an American are allowed to have, and any success beyond that will be confiscated by government and redistributed. And there is nothing magical about that $250,000 figure in his current plan. If there isn’t enough “success” to distribute around (read that money earned by hard-working Americans to redistribute to those who are not as successful or as hard working), that number could easily be changed by the Democrat President with the connuivance of a Democrat-controlled House and Senate. Overnight, the number could become $200,000, or $150,000, or $100,000, depending upon how successful Barack Obama and his socialist cronies believe you should be allowed to be.

Of course, Obama is somehing of a hypocrite on this. He’s got his, in the form of book royalties. I’ve not noticed him redistributing his own success to the poor (no, he used a big chunk of it to buy a house in a dirty deal with a corrupt political insider) – but he wants the government to take yours at gunpoint to use as he sees fit. That is quite antithetical to the notion of freedom and limited government that underlies our Constitution – but then again, Barack Obama believes that the Constitution evolves to mean whatever the latest liberal focus group wants it to mean.

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