Politics #3

My installment this time will focus on two areas that have been irking me lately.

First: ''Spread the wealth around''
Barack Obama said this at an event last week. He said this as he was trying to explain the purpose of his more accentuated, graduated income tax plan. He wants to spread the wealth around to help out those who need it. The thought that immediately came to my mind was communism. Today I looked up the communist manifesto online, and I found something disturbing: The whole idea of graduated income tax was Karl Marx's idea! Barack Obama is advocating a core principle of communism for use in the ''land of the free, and the home of the brave.'' This idea completely repulses me. Why would you want to use these ideas in our country. Barack Obama is beyond socialist, he is a communist. Obama calls himself a friend for the middle class. Well guess what, so did Karl Marx. Game, Set, Match. Commie.

Second: I recently received my absentee balot(I will be working the polls), and I saw Proposition A on there. The proponents say that it will benefit schools by taxing casinos even more. I won't disagree with that, except to say that in order for it to benefit the schools, they must be managed properly, which they aren't. My problem here is with the way the government will get the money. This bill will actually eliminate loss limits at casinos. People who are addicted to gambling will give the casinos as much money as they can stay conscious
for. This puts both the casinos(which I hate) and the state in the position of ''stealer of the helpless addict's money.'' It makes me so mad that the state can justify taxing people on things that are addictive. These people need help, not higher taxes they can't afford. We have the same problem with enormous taxes on ciggarettes. If the government says it is raising taxes for public good(casinos), or public health(ciggarettes), then it whould ban gambling and smoking. THAT alone would improve the country. But the politician's are too happy with taking in the money to do that. I wonder, who is really addicted, the needy people, or the greedy intruding politicians?