Marx is Not Our Next President

Barack Obama has been called many things. Among them are Muslim and terrorist. Many of them were used to shy people away from supporting him. However, even now that he has been elected (sort of), people are still calling him names. Now, people are akin to calling him a socialist.

Barack Obama is not a socialist, and I have four different points to prove so. First, a progressive tax (a higher tax on the higher-paid) was supported by Adam Smith, one of the founders of modern Capitalism.* It is by no means an exclusively socialist idea.

To those of you who say, "Well, he supports redistributing wealth," that is his goal. He is aiming to give to the poor something off of which to live through this progressive tax. He isn't going to simply steal hard-earned money from the well-off and give it to the unemployed and underpaid.

My third point is that 52% of high income voters (>$100,000 a year) voted for Barack Obama.^ Many of these people, no doubt, will not receive a tax cut under Obama's plan, but they most likely realize that their sacrifice is a small one and goes toward the greater good.

Finally, let's say, just for kicks, that there are socialist aspects of Obama's plans. So? Our education system is socialist. The health care systems of Canada, England, and France are socialist. Socialism isn't necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it would probably be worse if our entire system was capitalist.

These accusations should have stopped when Obama won. Quit blowing everything out of proportion and listen to reason.