I have wondered for a long time just way Democrats believe
in and support almost militantly more taxes and especially taxation on the
rich. As near as I can tell it comes down to one of two answers and in the end
they may both be the same.
The first reason is that they are basically socialists or
communists at their hearts and they have bought into the whole proletariat
mindset. I believe very strongly this describes at least some of them and who
knows, maybe most of them. In the Marxist, communist, socialist view of the
world rich people are evil just because they’re rich. They got where they are
more or less by stealing it from other people. They believe they didn’t earn it
honestly and so it is only right that they should share it with others. This is
the concept of redistribution of wealth.
Where Obama is concerned I think there is little doubt that
he believes this view since he said outright to “Joe the Plumber” that he
wanted redistribution of wealth. Oddly the media not only didn’t pick up on or run
with this, but they actually did what they could to either not report it or to
put a more reasonable spin on it by explaining what Obama “really meant”. Still
he said it and the context was quite clear.
Since there was no criticism from any of the democrats
regarding this comment I feel it would be reasonable to believe that they
support this view.
The other reason Democrats are so eager to tax is that their
economic view of the world is that it is what is commonly called the “zero sum
game”. What this means is that they believe there is a fixed amount of money
and assets and as a result for one to have means another goes without. It is
for this reason that I said that both may be correct. I believe when all is
said and done communist believe this view or at least behave as though they
believe it.
If you believe the “pie”, as the economy is often referred
to, is a fixed size then you do believe that for some to eat a big piece means
others will either get a smaller piece or no piece at all. From a child’s point
of view or even a parent’s point of view try to teach their child good ethics
this would be consider unfair. This is probably also the reason we hear all the
silliness about fairness all the time. The democrat view of the economic world
is this view. They do not consider the idea that more pies could be backed, or
that there are more resources.
It is certainly easy enough to see that this view is not
realistic, or logical. If they really believed this, then the world would have
no aluminum. Because after all it never existed before, and at one point when
it was first invented it was so expensive to make that it was worth more than
gold. People were certain that it would never really go anywhere. Now you can
hardly find an alloy that is more common. Where did it all come from? Do we now
have a fixed amount of aluminum? Can no more be made? Or what about something simple
like food. Are there a fixed number of apples in the world such that once the
ones we have run out there will be no more to be had? We all know this is
crazy. There will be more crops and the crops we have now for the most part
meet all the demands for them.
I hope I don’t have to go through every natural resource we
have, but it is clear to see that there are not a fixed amount of assets. We
can build as many houses as we want. We only need lumber and metal, both of
which are far more plentiful now than they were 200 years. These things have
not become rarer, but rather they have become more plentiful. We now have 200%
more trees in the United States than we did when colonists first came to this
country. The reason is that lumber people plant 2 trees for every 1 they cut
down.
Since the pie is either not a fixed size or since more pies
can be made it is clear to see that some don’t eat thus causing others to go
hungry. Indeed the others could even go find their own materials and make their
own pies. It is not because assets are fixed that people are poor or go hungry.
There are many other reasons for this, but fixed assets are not one of them.
From the view of
fixed assets it is understandable that Democrats don’t believe they can “grow
their way out of debt.” At the same time they also can’t stop themselves when
it comes to spending. Sadly this is true of all progressives including the
Republican brand. So they believe the only way to make up the debt is to take
from the current assets as no others will be available.
I don’t know that there is any way to change a person’s
world view short of an epiphany. Generally speaking people feel that their
world views are well supported based on experience or the knowledge of others
and because of this it is not like to change them. For the reason the
democrats, progressives, communists, socialists and Marxists that so permeate
our congress will continue to view taxes as something that must be taken from
the people in every greater amounts to keep things “fair”.
Because in their view the “pie” is fixed it is not fair that
some should have a larger part of the pie than others. Taxes are the weapon of
choice to bring about that “fairness”.
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