Hillary and Obama have been talking a lot over the last few months about making the oil companies pay extra taxes when they make more profits than ‘expected’ (expected by Hillary? by a federal regulatory agency? by internal accountants?). No one seems to be talking about how the government is going to be limited (like they want to limit businesses) so that they don’t extend those same market caps to other industries, such as manufacturing, agriculture, science, pharmaceuticals, and entertainment.
How many Obama supporters would there be if we talked about those market caps being defined for ‘all profit-making entities’, instead of just the oil companies?
Of course, the Obama folks would make it sound great for the little guy — because they’ve already sold the idea that they will take more taxes from the most profitable and pass that money along to those who aren’t profitable at all.
If it’s beginning to sound like Obama doesn’t like capitalism all that much, you may be onto something. Obama likes to squirrel away his millions by taking it away from people — actually earning it would not only disprove some of his ideals; it would also be a whole lot of, well, work.
So what would the world look like if we stopped rewarding the gifted, patting those on the back who are successful, and lending preference to those who work as hard as they possibly can?
Well, for starters, you would please a lot of Democrat politicians. But only for a short while; because their constituents would soon see that just when their hard work was beginning to pay off, some of them would pass that line in the sand that alerts the federal government that, “HEY! This person OVER HERE is now successful — we need to TAKE MORE FROM HIM AND HIS FAMILY because, after all, it’s for the good of society!”
Then the Democratic constituency would discover that none of them, save the bottom wage-earners (and the Welfare leeches, the illegal immigrants, and those who refuse to report their income) would see any benefit from all their hard labor. In fact, most of the smart ones will realize quickly that to excel is to lose; so they will be left with only two choices: stop working so hard or figure out a way to hide your profits.
And people think we have problems with tax cheats now.
As an easy-to-digest example of the Moonbat Way of rewarding talent and success, we can take a peek at Sports Illustrated’s writeup of the quelling of the top of the curve: Jericho Scott vs. the Youth Baseball League of New Haven
” NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Nine-year-old Jericho Scott is a good baseball player — too good, it turns out.
The right-hander has a fastball that tops out at about 40 mph. He throws so hard that the Youth Baseball League of New Haven told his coach that the boy could not pitch any more. When Jericho took the mound anyway last week, the opposing team forfeited the game, packed its gear and left, his coach said.
Officials for the three-year-old league, which has eight teams and about 100 players, said they will disband Jericho’s team, redistributing its players among other squads, and offered to refund $50 sign-up fees to anyone who asks for it. They say Jericho’s coach, Wilfred Vidro, has resigned.
But Vidro says he didn’t quit and the team refuses to disband. Players and parents held a protest at the league’s field on Saturday urging the league to let Jericho pitch.”
This young man might still be better off than most Americans will be under an Obama Presidency — at least the League didn’t charge Jericho’s parents ten times the normal league fee because he’s in the top five percent of performers.
As long as American voters allow the Democrats, and this country, to be led by people who really don’t think capitalism is a good idea, we risk giving up the one concept beyond our personal freedoms that set us apart from the history of the rest of the world.
Even worse, those personal freedoms that we value so much will mean so much less when we no longer have the ability to keep our families fed and sheltered. Imagine how much freedom of speech and the right to bear arms will be a threat to our government when our politicians realize that their constituents would rather see them dead than voted out of office — that’s when the NRA will be outlawed and disbanded, the newspapers will become puppets of the State, and Public Schools will be the only kind of schools. That is that path that our country would walk should our economy become the sandbox of communists and socialists.
In our optimism, we as a people can be fooled and led by the nose for far too long. But that is exactly the kind of rope the Obama campaign is trying to hang us with — to attempt to hide their takeover of the minds and wallets of our country by claiming that those companies that are doing well are to blame for those who are not. To quote Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”.
Obama would not be known by history as the President of Hope; but as the man who saw fit to see our freedoms hang by a rope until dead.
H/t to Moonbattery.com
