Posted by
Juliana Johnson on Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:27:48 AM
It wasn't exactly a Red Dawn moment but it is as close as John McCain has come to date.
McCain
finally put the face paint on and sounded the alarm for America's
productive, play-by-the-rules class that Barack Obama and his
spread-the-wealth, leftist guerillas are advancing.
McCain's Manifesto in Wednesday night's final Presidential debate: Joe the Plumbers of the World Unite!
McCain
capitalized on Comrade Obama's unintentional moment of candor earlier
in the week wherein he told Joe the Plumber from Holland, Ohio, an
aspiring small business owner, that the Obama plan is to "spread the
wealth". In so doing, McCain for the first time framed the choice
Americans have in this race between his pro-growth tax policies and
Obama's virulent brand of wealth redistribution for its own sake.
Watching
Obama sell the need for so-called fairness in our tax system, I was
reminded of the infomercial hucksters hawking no money down real estate
schemes.
Fairness is the problem when the top 5% of income
earners in America pay 60% of the total federal incomes taxes collected
and the bottom 35% pay no federal incomes tax at all?
In the
name of fairness we should inhibit capital formation by increasing the
capital gains tax; we should close markets to American goods by
discarding free trade agreements; and we should prevent would-be small
business owners like Joe the Plumber from ever getting there by
imposing additional tax burdens on businesses that already pay the
second highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.
McCain
effectively stripped away Obama's flowery, Platonic rhetoric and
exposed the component parts of the grand Fairness Regime that Senator
Government (a well-timed Freudian slip by McCain) seeks to inflict upon
our nation.
If McCain ruthlessly prosecutes the fault lines he
exposed last evening and defiantly stands up for job-creators and
risk-takers, then McCain, and America for that matter, will indeed have
been mistakenly written off once again.