Palin: Obama's Tax Plans Could Mean Nightmare Communist State

Sarah Palin had a few memorable moments during her campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, on Saturday. But the most eye-opening of them all came, it would appear, when the Alaska Governor somehow drew a connection between Barack Obama's tax policy and an encroaching, nightmarish, communist government. The Illinois Democrat, she hysterically suggested, would, through his proposals, create a country "where the people are not free."

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else. If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody. Obama, Barack Obama has an ideological commitment to higher taxes, and I say this based on his record... Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us. And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us. Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free. Let us fight for what is right. John McCain and I, we will put our trust in you."

That yarn goes well beyond what Palin and McCain have, to this point, been comfortable asserting: mainly that Obama is proposing economic socialism. But there are a few things to keep in mind here: the McCain-Palin ticket does not oppose a progressive tax system. In fact, back in 2000, the Arizona Republican said rich people paid more in taxes because they could afford to do so.

"I think the first people who deserve a tax cut are working Americans with children that need to educate their children," he said, "and they're the ones that I would support tax cuts for first."

More importantly, Obama's tax plans are less progressive than those in place during the Clinton years. In fact, the rates that people making over $250,000 would have to pay would be the same as during the 1990s -- a time definitely not marked by the absence of freedoms.

Comments

[H8Fauxpublicans]

this level of stupid is unreal

http://anncoulterisaretard.com/

[RDSOregon]

This is why I could never vote for these people. They're crazy. Seriously crazy.

Here are some pics that tell the story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8gJ_rPHXtk

Don't get complacent. Please, pass it on...

[arvay]

This is an incoherent statement, it's difficult to understand what she's saying beyond the muddled idea that taxes somehow make you lose your property.

It's very embarrassing that a confused thinker, a fifteenth-grade mind, could reach such a position in our country.

[jp5472]

Funny thing about her prepared speeches, on her own before being nominated:

"We're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs."

-- Gov. Sarah Palin, quoted by the New Yorker, a few weeks before she was nominated for vice president sounding a little like Karl Marx herself.

[arvay]

Ha, I was unaware of that, thank you! How amazing. Self-contradictory goes with muddled, I guess :-)

[littlebrowngirl]

Someone please shut her up. Her voice is so very annoying I have the change the TV everytime she is on it.

Many of the woman at the rallys for Palin act like they are at a Betty Crocker Bake off! This race is for the leadership of the free world not a pajama party, or after dinner game.

Please go away to some place like FOX news where i will be sure to never have to lay eyes on you again.

[fredfep]

Missouri22250 :

Sorry if we split the country up, you minority party bozos will not get California or anything remotely on a coast, nor anywhere where anything much is manufactured. You will be living in mostly Oklahoma and teh deep south. Without subsidies for your farming since you don't believe in socialism; without having to pay taxes so each one of you better learn how to fix potholes in the highways. Without the socialistic Federal Aviation Agency with its communistic union workers, so good luck in landing a plane, not that you'd have teh proper passport to visit all the interesting tourist sites in this country that you've ceded us (you'll have Utah I guesss, so you can ski there.)

The rest of the world will treat your portion as both third world, but you will reject their aide as socialism, as well as education so you will become teh most backward country in the entire world. BEing liberals, we will never invade or annex you, you will reject our Marxist leninist anarchistic fundamentalist fascist terrorist liberal socialist communist aide. You will all starve to death, then we will buy the land back at an estate auction.

Cool

[CarlyCorday]

Palin's function is to turn back the clock, bring out what has been muzzled by social evolution and enlightenment, make a "long-silenced, downtrodden group" out of racist neanderthals (my apologies to real Neandertals). For 8 years, Bush/Cheney have paved the way, and it is nearly over now.

This is the kind of comment being posted NOW at local newspaper forums, without shame, now that this downtrodden bunch has "permission" not only to revert to form, but take pride in it. LOOK:

"While I know it is hard to believe americans could become more divided than they already are, an obama presidency will probably divide this nation like we have not seen since the time of lincoln. Once people begin to view obama socialists as less than human it uncomplicates things."
10/26/2008 4:30:07 PM

Posted at forum of newspaper serving two counties in the Deep South, in a state that went overwhelmingly for Bill Clinton both times, a state once rued by Republicans as "a one-party state for the past 150 years" (meaning hopelessly Democrat).

Calls to rise up and murder your countrymen used to be just plain socially unacceptable. Well, this animal is out of its cage. Thank you, Mrs. Palin. You do your job extraordinarily well. Your Maker is probably interested in hearing what you have to say about your function in human history, when your time comes as everyone's does in the end. Wow, I don't envy you that.

[KD1722]

Should Palin really be lecturing anyone on misuse of power?

For funny Sarah Palin Videos go to:
http://www.dillardsisters.com

[formerprosecutor]

She has a honorary Phd in abuse of power, of course she is qualified to lecture

[bodo]

Palin tells even bigger lies than McCain. Obviously her managers believe that her hick audiences will swallow even bigger whoppers. Nobody ever lost money betting on the stupidity of the people.

[jimbeaux1961]

Question; Why is it not socialism for Sarah Palin to sell Alaska'a natural resources to private companies and then dole out the money to Alaska's residents?

[formerprosecutor]

Oh Yeah! I forgot about that; in addition, I understand that one cannot even apply for a government job unless youi are ALREADY a resident of Alaska (last I checked , that was true)

[AntonioGramsci]

Dear Mrs. Heath-Palin,
For your personal edification, I suggest the following:
"Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution," by television star Stephen F. Cohen (available online for the used price of 59 cents, which should please you since you and Todd live so frugally).

"Journey into the Whirlwind" by Eugenia Semyonovna Ginzburg (also available used from $5.79, more expensive but worth it).

"Wild Swans" by Jung Chang (used from $2.14).

You demean the life of every person who has suffered through these nightmares with your silly, uninformed, childish rants. Please read these books, then be quiet for the rest of eternity. Having had long discussions with people who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution, I can say without equivocation that you disgust me.

[formerprosecutor]

are you serious? Palin would never spend the effort to TRY to read those works; even if she did , she doesn't have the ability to understand them. She needs to start with our Constitution and learn about yhe context and conflicts that went into it's creation. That would take her the remainder of her life due to lack of intellectual curiousity...but a good list nonetheless

[sloreader]

Well said. By all appearances, she either does not know what she is talking about or she enjoys repeatedly lying more than anyone I can recall (with the exception of a few notorious sociopaths). She should take your suggestions to heart before she does some real damage to this country.

[DemoMom]

Wild Swans is brilliant and taught me so much about the realities and pain of living through Mao's Cultural Revolution. Palin would do well to lock herself in a hotel room for a few days to read books like this before opening her mouth and throwing around a word like "communism". She has no idea and how anyone can take her seriously as a candidate for 2012 is beyond me. She is shallow, weak and doesn't have an inquiring bone in her body - didn't we just endure more than 7 years under a president like that?

[Ruckmaker]

We're going to be unfree, are we? Meaning the government might be tapping our phones, I guess. Or profiling us based on our race, perhaps? Or suspending habeus corpus?

And it will be socialist, I suppose. Meaning the government will step in and nationalize failing businessses?

My God, we are in for a dramatic change, aren't we?

[Missouri22250]

I've got an idea, lets split the country in half. The liberals can have the land east of the mississippi and the conservatives get the west. You guys can have all the abortions and gay marriage you want. You can have social healthcare, get rid of all your guns and sit in your hippie circles and sing folk music while you wait for your government to tell you what to do and provide you with everything you need. We in the west will ban gay marriage and abortion and work hard and pay for our own healthcare. We will strengthen our military and send all of our illegal aliens to your side of the river. We can hunt and fish and do all the the thing americans have enjoyed for the last 232 years. We will employ the methods that have kept this country great all of this time. Lets do all of this and see which side lasts longer, allthough with gay marriage and abortion I don't see it being much of a contest.

There is something for you warped thinking, left wing liberals to think about. Have fun with it!

[formerprosecutor]

You must be my crazy neighbor that spent their stimulus check on more guns and camoflage

[Pennsanic]

Okay but we get to keep California.

[HistoryMakin]

And Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, Iowa and Missouri

[barakagirl]

So if we follow your stupid logic we get in addition California, probably Oregon , Illinois and Montana. Now you want to ban abortions, wellif you had a 2 connecting neurons you'll know that it won't stop women from doing it illegally. You'll just have more populated jail and lots of abandoned kids and without any healthcare your part of the country will end up like Brazil in the 80's.
It's also funny to note that the richest states in the US are mostly blue states and the ones where welfare is more popular are red ones.....
Let's not even talk about gay marriages, your own republican party is filled with closet gays.
So yes I want secession so we can stop providing welfare for you idiots.

[Missouri22250]

Who is the idoit, Illinios is allready east of the Mississippi.

[formerprosecutor]

Missouri will be deep BLUE next week : )

[cgpunker]

I agree! I'd love to live in my liberal, free thinking left hand side of the country with the wealthiest states and most important research and higher learning institutions. So while y'all are waving the flag and watching Nascar in your underwear, we'll continue to improve our standard of living without you dragging the rest of us down.

There's something for you to think about!

[GregMinNYC]

Palin has got to have written that speech herself. Even McCain's people are not that inarticulate and dumb.

[onenvrnos]

I want election reform. Seriously.

[disgustedcitizen]

Palin is making her case for the Very Rich, (the true Republican base), to the masses. The Very Rich are terrified that the middle class, and, God forbid, the poor should get something, and thus keep them, the Very Rich, from getting more. God knows, you can not be too rich! Why have 10 houses, when you can have 11? Why have a prop driven airplane when a jet is better?

Screw the republicans and their Very Rich base, and the idiots who would vote against their own best interests of some idiotic single issue, like abortion or gay rights, or any of the other diversions, the repugs are throwing out there.