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Written by Edwin Sumcad Subject: Activism

It is a horror story. Taxation is used to chainsaw the income of “Middle Class” taxpayers in this country. 

       That’s the Halloween tale of Sen. Barack Obama when elected president. The sawed parts of that hard earned income go to his wealth redistribution plan. It frightens Americans, notably hard working “Middle Class” earners.

      It is reminiscent of those scream-fear stories since movie land’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre hit town and traumatized viewers with mangled bodies sawed into bloody parts.

     About five days before this nation elects a new president on November 4, 2008, we celebrate Halloween. While we tell ghost stories to our kids, Barack Obama, Democrat candidate for president, is telling a spooky tale to American voters. And it scares the wit out of every knowledgeable American who knows what his Halloween socialism means!

      During a Democrat rally in Ohio, Joe Wurzelbachers, better known as Joe the Plumber, heard this horror story directly from Obama’s mouth … the candidate’s wealth redistribution plan through taxation that would impoverish “the poor” instead of help their lot.

      It was one of the scariest Halloween stories Joe ever heard since he was a kid. 

     The dialogue between Joe and Barack was caught on national television viewed by millions. To every struggling taxpayer, it was a spine-tingling terror that hit them since I last film-reviewed the movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the mangling of body parts.  The amputation of Joe’s hard earned income under Obama’s Marxist plan to redistribute wealth is of this horror genre.

       Obama talked to Joe who asked him about his tax policies, especially as these relate to Obama’s promised wealth redistribution scheme that was repeatedly announced in the campaign trail.  Obama expected Joe to bite his carrot plan that he was dangling with his left hand before Joe’s eyes while his right hand was holding a stick – actually, a chainsaw.

       Joe told Obama that he would like to own and operate a plumbing business.  Joe was elated because Obama the president will help him achieve the success of his proposed venture and attain his “American Dream”. But Joe was shocked to learn that Obama will apply the stick on him once he succeeds in his business venture and join the Middle Class with an annual income of more than $250,000 a year.

        Millions of Americans across the country like Joe were appalled upon hearing from Obama the confiscation of his income through taxation … this involuntary mutilation of his earnings to forcibly redistribute wealth. Joe has no say who are the people Obama chooses as beneficiaries to receive his taxed income from business when Obama the president implements his grandiose populist-socialist wealth redistribution plan.

       Whatever Joe earns through hard work beyond $250,000 per annum is owned by President Obama who thinks that he was Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest, free to redistribute that part of Joe’s hard-earned income to the lowest 40% of the 95% of millions of Americans that as president, Obama would not tax or just maintain the tax level because they hate to work or are lazy to work more or not working hard enough to earn more income like Joe does. The philosophy of dependency and the creation of a welfare state reared their ugly heads in Joe's now disquieted mind. Like Joe, hard-working Americans in the tax guillotine line were fearful and visibly disturbed.

       In a recent article, I wrote the following: Obama’s program of “wealth distribution” that he explained to Joe in Ohio, was actually communalism couched in the language of American capitalism. It is taught in Marxist schools in communist countries, and in the free world in underground cadre indoctrination and training of radical recruits.

      In the United States, behind this underground radical socialist movement that candidate Obama hopes to lead when he becomes president, is the consummate liberation doctrine of the Liberals now orchestrated by the Democrat candidate for president in the campaign trail: Rob the industrious who through their hard labor became rich, and give it to the lazy, the indolent good for nothing hateful poor who badly needs help! 

      This is a reading from the holy gospel of the Democrats and the radical Left for those who have attended their doctrinal boot camps across the country.

       To understand more this scary socialist plan ever introduced in America, let me state again the following: To Obama the “Middle Class” is a community of hard-working American taxpayers whose income is $250,000 and below, a year. With this level of earnings are about 95% of American taxpayers whose rate of taxes he would not disturb. Some 30%-40% of the 95% are “the poor” he would give a tax relief [a zero tax] or free them from taxation.  This presents a picture of the carrot Obama is dangling before the mesmerized American public, especially to Joe or to all entrepreneurs like Joe.

      However, when earnings go beyond the threshold [$250,000 p.a.], Obama punishes hard-working taxpayers by applying the “stick”. He would use his tax chainsaw to mangle hard-earned income -- cut off the “surplus” into bloody parts to serve his socialist agenda.

     In reality, Joe’s “Middle Class” income is going to be sawed off by the imposition of retributive taxes that would kill his incentive and dampen his initiative to work even harder to expand his business that would create more jobs, which would increase more household income in general!

     Obama vowed to punish “the rich” even more by imposing heavier taxes to siphon wealth and redistribute it to “the poor”.  The target of this tax mania is the approximately 5%-10% “rich” corporate taxpayers on top that make America the wealthiest country on the planet.  They create millions of jobs for “the poor” and the “Middle Class” and increase their income by stride with a tremendous multiplier effect to the economy, thus making America the wealthiest and the mightiest nation on earth.

     Like any other worried economists, what I am clearly saying without any iota of doubt is that it is a good policy for the government to encourage and promote corporate economic activities, and a bad policy to “kill” them with confiscatory taxes just because in Obama’s mind they are “rich”, a catchword of Liberal condemnation in behalf of the poor masses to win their votes.

     If you pit "the rich" against "the poor" as Obama does to win votes and public adulation, you have a tug of war of capitalism versus egalitarianism that destabilize the economy, not create a rich economy in a free enterprise society perceived as fair where every American, especially "the poor" has an equal opportunity to either get rich or the freedom to remain poor.

     The fatal consequence of a class war is unacceptable. Americans must understand that this is one of the causes why "the poor" gets poorer, and "the rich" remains rich or richer. For, in a class war that Obama foments and aggravates, "the rich" has a way out, but "the poor" has no escape in the box it is in and therefore becomes the casualty of economic attrition.  For example, when big corporations close down, or move their businesses to other countries where taxes do not “kill” them, millions of jobs are lost, and the ones that suffer the most are “the poor” that Obama promised to help but instead bludgeon to hardship and eventually consigned to penury.  They are the victims of Obama's class war.

      Aware that Obama is going to “kill” their businesses that create jobs by imposing a punishing rate of escalating taxes, corporations are going to “hide” their “business transactions” and income outside of the United States, to evade paying taxes.

     Tax havens like the Cayman Is. where I have been about two years ago on a tour and at the same in a survey of off-shore banking in the island, and the 3-Bs [ Bahamas, Bahrain and Belize], are well-known sanctuaries of tax evasion.

     Obama should review his knee-jerk economics.  He should not deceive the public.  He should be honest to tell Americans that under his tax plan, scary things are going to happen that would not only create recession but more dangerously would send the economy to the ICU. The terrible financial meltdown we have now that calls for more than a $700 billion bailout, would be just kid stuff in comparison.

     At least Obama should not ignore the fundamentals of taxation which he is flouting to the point of ignorance, that when corporations are penalized with unconscionable rates of taxes or forced to bear multiple taxes to raise revenue for his massive trillion-dollar government spending if elected president -- just because in his socialist hate-rich agenda as champion of the poor he had developed a knee-jerk vocabulary that these corporations are filthy “rich” -- it is actually the American taxpayers that he is punishing because corporations pass on the penalty to the consumers!

     This is just one of the basic principles of economics that Obama conceitedly disregards and his advisers contravene with such condescending arrogance.

     That’s not how wealth grows in America. Obama’s plan is the way of the collectivists in a centralized economy; that’s how tax evasion are encouraged, how welfare dependency among the population is promoted and how the government grows out of control.

       It was in the final presidential debate held in Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. on October 15, 2008 that Obama’s socialist scheme for America had become crystal clear to the public. Obama has been hiding this ideological dream since his early association with radical socialists in the academe of Chicago, like American bomber Bill Ayers turned educator who would murder Americans and bomb buildings to create a classless society in America.

      I have posted an alarm in a published editorial warning readers in the Internet, especially Obama supporters, that except for leftist partisans already riding the Democrat bandwagon down the road to White House, the public hardly knew Obama was a member of the “Democratic Socialists of America, a U.S. affiliate of Socialist International” [SOCINT].

[see Note[1] below to access.]

     In the UN, representatives of the free world [I was there as deputy permanent representative] clashed with SOCINT delegates in spirited debates when the New International Order of the 70s was crafted. Their extreme international structuralist models were the works of Baran, Sweezy, Magdoff and their kind who advocated the transfer of surplus from the periphery [Joe’s surplus income] to the center [to the government] just like what Obama is now advocating in his “wealth redistribution” plan for America. The government Obama will create is confiscatory, just like how all communist governments confiscate wealth.

     The result of this government pilfering of the people’s income through punitive taxation is that the surplus drain reverses growth of businesses and industries resulting in massive loss of jobs, thus perpetuates the poverty of the less developed countries [the periphery in the global macro scene, which in domestic micro perspective means the 95% of millions of struggling poor in America]. In a class war that Obama promotes, "the poor" loses.

      To elect Obama president would be a haunting Halloween experience to all Americans! #

© Copyright Edwin A. Sumcad. NWS access October 22, 2008.

Note: Obama's "wealth redistribution" plan gives me the opportunity to present this analysis.  It is a challenge to me not only as a journalist but also as a development economist that worked in the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific for eleven years.

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[1]http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/07/obama-is-hiding-a-radical-past/

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