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Envy, Equality, and Economic Destruction

May 26th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

I don’t think I misunderstood. You are criticizing the driving ideology of those on the left, pointing out that the consequences of such ideology could lead to soviet style economics.

Political ideologies are generally weak in the united states. Your using of labels such as left and right are not the same here as they are in other societies. Bill Clinton saw some of the greatest gains of wealth in the US, and yet his ideology falls in line with Obama.

I’m not saying it’s the government’s job to regulate greed, but to (and i agree with you) to create a just, stable society… Our current economic system and tax policy is not just and puts most of the burden on the poor. So I agree with you, I want my government (and I think that Obama could spearhead it) to create such a society.

I suppose you have fears that under “rightist” administrations, our country may end up in a fascist state since “the root of the ideology is the same, an extreme example more clearly illustrates the harm that results.”

Envy, Equality, and Economic Destruction

May 26th, 2009 at 11:32 am

Amy, you rightly point to the consequences of communist politics as practiced in the soviet union. Solzhenitsyn is a respected authority in describing and observing to the rest of the world as to the brutality of the Soviet Union’s policies in the 1950s.

However, you take the extra step to link soviet style managed economy to American economics as perceived by those who are just left of center. It is unfortunate and wrong to make that link. Democrats in office will not pave the road to create a Soviet America. (And as much as the Weekly Standard, Townhall.com, and others would like us to believe)

What Obama and others rightly observe is that the tax system in our country is more advantageous to the rich than it is to the poor. It sucks to be poor in America because you will see a larger portion of your money taxed. The rich do pay a larger portion of the tax revenue in terms of raw numbers, but a smaller one when it comes to percentage of worth or income. I won’t go into the data or the evidence in that I know we’ll get caught up holding one set of data against another set of data.

Obama is not and in time his presidency will prove that he is not as far left as the right would like to paint him. Likewise, GW was not as far right as the left would like to paint him. I have criticized those who have linked the neo-cons and the previous administration to fascism.

Envy is a powerful force that will destroy people. But so is creating a system that puts undue economic burdens on the poor and excuses the greed of the rich.