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Entry: Greenspan's Gambits Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/greenspans_gambits#5817 Post contents: MSS sed: “…do you or don’t you think that a 75% rate of illegitimacy serves the black community well?…the principle of redistribution - based on the Marxist axiom, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” - has the clearest tie of any of these to a graduated or ‘progressive’ income tax rate scheme, as first advocated by Marx and Engels in the Communist Manifesto.” Nobody likes the welfare system, and Clinton reformed it considerably. But while Aid to Families with Dependent children got curtailed, only to be replaced with increased negative income tax, rent subsidies and so on. At any rate, it’s a drop in the bucket of the Federal Welfare state. And irrelevant to the discussion of the progressive income tax, or the burden on taxation that falls disproportionately on the middle class, and working folks. You are the one avoiding the question. As usual, you are up to your old tricks, first it was the Welfare Mother bug-a-boo, and appeals to racism. Now we are all communists? I’ve presented plenty of links proving that the payroll tax is regressive, and that the rich are not paying their fair share. Furthermore without the progressive income tax, the US economy would be a third world economy, like Mexico---which seems to be your ideal of a government where the working class pays for welfare for the rich. As for being motivated by Marxism, that’s YOUR slur, and not true. I’m more motivated by the social gospel of Jesus and my Christian faith. My values are the values of the working class: religion, family, community and love of country. My ideas on CLASS are more motivated by Max Weber, not Karl Marx. I was the chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom in college, and a student of Russell Kirk. I’ve spent a lot of time and effort all my life fighting communists in the labor movement and the antiwar movement to be slurred by the likes of as selfish, ideological zealot like you. Sent at: 2008 11 22