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: I'm not sure I follow your reasoning, RobS. You're claiming that, because some of his statements sound somewhat like Karl Marx's, he advocates the same policies he does. That doesn't follow, does it? --[[User:Afi|Afi]] 14:03, 18 July 2007 (EDT)
: I'm not sure I follow your reasoning, RobS. You're claiming that, because some of his statements sound somewhat like Karl Marx's, he advocates the same policies he does. That doesn't follow, does it? --[[User:Afi|Afi]] 14:03, 18 July 2007 (EDT)
::You cited the expenditure side of the ledger, I cited the revenue side. The link I provided has much more than what was quoted, for example,
:::''There is nothing new about the shouts of [[class warfare]]. And there is nothing new about saying that some leaders are giving big tax cuts to their wealthy friends on Wall Street. They said it all a hundred years ago. ''
::The whole speech is the politics of [[envy]], pitting "rich" against poor. And we have this double speak:
:::''Everyone who works should have a chance to build up their wealth—the wealth to offer their family security in time of trouble, the '''wealth to pass on a better future to their children.'''''
::and then condemns the GOP with
:::'' they are trying to make the elimination of the estate tax permanent. ''
::So which is it? Are workers entitled to pass on their accumulated wealth to their children or not?
:::''Our tax code should honor every kind of work—the work of a doctor, a mill worker, a janitor. ''
::What about the work of the investor, without which nobody works at all? [[User:RobS|RobS]] 14:28, 18 July 2007 (EDT)