GOP Sticks With Karl (Marx)

To get a Democrat to admit to practicing socialism is a lot like frisking a wet seal.

To get Republicans to confess to their role in socializing America is an equally slippery affair.

The latter have been grandstanding about the plan of the wily pitch-man Obama to plunder taxpayers (the minority) so as to pay tax consumers (the majority). For the edification of GOP grandstanders, America has a tax system that energetically distributes income.

The progressive income tax is a good example of Karl Marx's maxim, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." It is socialism by any other name.

Obama is an adherent of this socialism; as is McCain. And so is George Bush, who, as a campaign ploy, had promised to reform America's steep tax system, but decided to stick with Karl.

Indeed, America, the cradle of capitalism, clings to Karl. Russia, the cradle of communism, has abandoned him in favor of a flat—and very low—tax on income.

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"Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it, because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide."

This is both socialism and serfdom—the blight of which GOPers could have lessened during their interminable tenure, but didn't. If anything, America has slouched toward socialism under Republicans. Perhaps not as far as direct taxation goes, but certainly in as much as borrowing and printing money is concerned. For this is how wastrel "W" has funded his orgiastic spending.

Borrowing and counterfeiting cash is taxation by stealth and subterfuge. These, arguably, are more destructive than direct taxation because more clandestine. Americans don't seem to comprehend that there is no free lunch—that unlimited spending comes at a price. Be it creditors that must be paid or a money supply that is inflated—the net effect is every bit as bad as increasing taxes on income, if not worse.

Taxation hits the pocketbook directly; government's borrowing and counterfeiting does so indirectly—it devalues Joe the Plumber's labor, assets, purchasing power, and savings. Unaware of how he's being ground down, Generic Joe keeps on consuming until he crashes.