George Rebane
The nation’s pace toward a socialistic state picked up speed with the release of Obama’s budget. One of the telltales of this is that our friends on the left are going to great pains to deny the use of the s-word in the public media. To them socialism can only be used when the state has already taken over all means production. Describing any sign that we’re headed that way as the road to socialism is off-limits. Then what do they call what’s happening now – why, it’s just revamping our society so that there is more equality and justice in the land by taking from the Peters to pay the Pauls with some shrinkage along the way for shipping and handling. The nearby chart shows that the government’s share of controlling the GDP is now nearing levels not seen since WW2. Not socialism? But we all know that “… a rose by any other name would smell as sweet …”, or will it simply smell?
The word ‘tax’ is also getting a makeover. It turns out, the Left is now teaching us that the carbon ‘cap and trade’ taxes being hammered into place are really not a tax at all. By 2012 the feds plan to rip out of the economy $78.7B, by 2014 this amount will have grown to $237B, and in ten years it will be $646B. The familiar and more gentle name for forcefully collected tributes by the government were called taxes. Now in the Newspeak sweeping the land, these are is simply “climate revenues” that will spontaneously rise out of the economy and deposit themselves in government coffers. And in case you haven’t turned that coin over to see the other side – these climate revenues will be collected in proportion from those hapless enterprises who don’t do what they’re told. In effect, it is another fine that the government can levy in order to shape us into their desired image of the perfected society. Another lever of power for them, another link in the chain for us. (Please refer to the rose note above.)
Obama’s support came from people on both extremes of the financial spectrum. McCain drew most of his support from people earning in the mid-range of incomes. Now that the President’s proposed budget is out with the heavy taxes on people earning over $204K, the people on the ‘rich end’ are beginning to wonder if there is any more significance to the observation that Obama’s supporters seemed to have come from a distribution in the shape of a dumbbell. The 27feb09 WSJ observed that –
With yesterday’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal, President Obama is attempting not merely to expand the role of the federal government but to put it in such a dominant position that its power can never be rolled back.
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