John Kerry has a plan. (You may have heard of this. I think he's said it a few times.) It involves your money. You can find a summary of it in the previous post on these pages.
No matter what you think of George Bush, or his genuine religiosity vs. Kerry's faux faith, or the Iraq war or the price of oil, a vote for John Kerry will set this country on a course to the nineteenth century - not 'Back to the Future' but 'Forward to the Past.' While George W. Bush promotes a national discussion of genuine, market based reforms to Social Security, John Kerry claims the answer to all our ills is simply, 'soak the rich.'
Supposing you think this won't affect you because you aren't 'rich,' consider this: John Kerry says that 'rich' means "the top 1 percent of taxpayers, earning $200K or more," but that is a smokescreen. The justification he uses for a tax increase on them applies just as well to anyone earning more than the national average of $43,000, namely "it's for the common good." Just how far do you think he would get if he told us all the truth? Has anyone ever heard of Walter Mondale? John Kerry is "fighting for the middle class" all right. He's fighting to flatten it out around that average income.
Now let's say you're household income is actually below the $43K average. Kerry's plan looks pretty good to you, right? For this system to be endorsed by the "sustainability" crowd illustrates either their ignorance of capital as the lifeblood of a healthy and prosperous economy, or the insincerity of their pleas for sustainable lifestyles, or both. If above average earnings are confiscated from productive individuals and awarded to non-productive ones, thus discouraging producers from producing more, we all know what happens to that average earnings figure. It does the same thing NASA's Genesis probe did last month.
Even if you think it involves "holding your nose" you absolutely must go out and vote for George W Bush on November 2nd, and take as many people with you as possible to do the same thing. This will be a turnout election, and if the 'soak the rich' crowd turn out more than those of us on the other side then on November 3rd, a lot more of us will be 'the rich.'
Posted by JohnGalt at October 16, 2004 11:14 AMI wish W would steal that line from Reagan. They accused him of seeing an America where everybody was rich and he said he saw an America where everybody could get rich -- Republicanism in less than 10 words.
Nice post, JG, I hope some folks heed your words.
Posted by: jk at October 16, 2004 02:03 PMCats and dogs living together, mass hysteria. - Bill Murray, Ghostbusters
Posted by: Silence Dogood at October 18, 2004 10:24 AM