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If the proletariat has some scratch, they will evidence a need to buy shit, and thus, the proletariat will respond accordingly to create the shit the proles wanna buy, and the aristocrats will profit by bankrolling the bourgeoisie!


You mean the "bourgesie" will respond accordingly? Seems you're taking a little for granted how obedient they are. Most of them already got money. What do they care? They're just gonna automatically "respond accordingly"?


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Raising taxes on aristocrats and lowering them on the proletariat may sound nice but it slows the pace of hiring and results in less proletariat with jobs.


That's exactly why I'm ticked. I'd have no problem with shifting more of the tax burden to higher tax brackets (bourgeoisie/aristocrats, but I feel stupid using those terms). Just not during recession. Just let the job creators keep their money so they can go out and invest and create jobs now. You send more of their money via taxes down to lower income brackets, and they have to figure out how to go gather more of this money from all those people. Some of them will decide not to, etc. It justs takes longer to get out of the recession if you raise their taxes now.

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The time to raise taxes is as at the top of the cycle when employment is in good shape and a few lost jobs won't hurt.


Obama knows this good and damn well. He just realizes his agenda of government redistribution of wealth has a limited time frame for implementation. The terrorists do another stunt on the homeland, and in 2010 he's not gonna have as much power in Congress or with the masses as he does now. He's gotta get the ball started rolling now.

That's a little conspiracist, but not too far fetched I think. With his eloquence and double talk, Obama's running as center left. But, his actual record, what he's actually done, he's the most liberal Senator we got.