Yeah, that's right -- Barack Obama is going to decide who needs the cash they earn, and confiscate anything over and above what he feels they deserve to keep.

If elected president, Senator Barack Obama said Sunday, he would seek to repeal President BushÂ’s tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and use the money to pay for health care, but he did not suggest he would raise other taxes to pay for expanded services.

Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat seeking his party’s presidential nomination, said in a television interview broadcast Sunday that he supported “rolling back the Bush tax cuts on the top 1 percent of people who don’t need it.” He did not endorse a broader plan to raise taxes on the affluent that has been proposed by John Edwards, one of Mr. Obama’s rivals for the nomination.

And therein lies an essential difference between Republicans and Democrats -- Democrats don't believe that it is really your money, but instead think that your paycheck is a resource for them to draw from for the programs they favor. After all, the government knows better than you do what you should spnd it n.

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