Robin Hood For President or is it Karl Marx?

One man's "patriotism" is another man's "neighborliness."

How do these terms correlate? They mean the same thing when both men are talking about higher taxes.

"Wealthy people who will pay higher income taxes under an Obama-Biden administration should consider it their patriotic duty," Sen. Joe Biden said on Good Morning America this morning.

Joe Biden thinks it the "duty" of "wealthy" people to "jump in," "be part of the deal," and it is time for them "to help get America out of the rut."

Sorry Joe, but the "rich" already paying the lion's share of the taxes in this country. Haven't they "jumped in -- rather, been pushed -- already? That 5% of Americans you want to burden with more taxes already pay nearly 60% of the income tax taken in by the government. That's not helping America?

Biden is not lobbying for a just tax increase, he is pushing for unabashed and undisguised income redistribution. And he seems quite proud to be!

Biden told GMA that he wants to “take money (from the rich) and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people." Sounds dangerously close to Robin Hood's mission statement: Take from the Rich and Give to the Poor.

That would make a great bumpersitcker, no?



This sentiment was echoed by Barack Obama in a recent interview with Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, "Wealthy people can afford to pay more." Obama said. "It’s the neighborly thing to do."

Barack, a "neighborly" thing to do is when the guy next door is on vacation, collect the newspaper for him. The government forcing you to pay more money in taxes in order to give that money to others is not neighborly; it is welfare.

Or worse, communism.

Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need"

Barack Obama: “If I am sitting pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t -- what’s the big deal for me to say, ‘I’m going to pay a little bit more.’ That is neighborliness,” Obama said.

If I have more money, quoth to Obama; I should give that money to someone who doesn't have as much as I.

"From each according to his ability," quoth Marx, "to each according to his need."

Voting for Robin Hood for president is one thing; voting for Karl Marx is another.