Captain's Quarters -

Edwards knows damn well that "the rich" (because he is one) don't just take their money and stuff it in a mattress, where it helps nobody. They invest, in things like real estate, in the stock market, in starting or expanding a business--all things that create new wealth and jobs. But, what helps Edwards get nominated in his party is money "invested" in government bureaucracy and in more government dependence. More government is even worse than stuffing the money in a mattress. That's like burning it. Edwards knows that, but he also knows that a lot of Democrat voters don't understand it, or don't care. What a fraud.

Ah, but Captain, what about the Social Programs, what about our Programs??
(Note to liberals: I am trying to be ironic).
But seriously, it is amazing how appealing the "Dictatorship of the proletariat" still is, despite all the catastrophes and misery it created all over the world, no exceptions. Yeah, right, let's tax the rich... It will solve all our problems...
Goes in line with Dean ideology, though.

The only reason the bolsheviks won't run on an overt communist platform is they realize it is too transparent. The incremental approach has been effective so far.

I feel bad that America's kids aren't being taught history anymore. I think they deserve to know what bolsheviks do to common folks when reality sets in and the promised utopia fails to materialize after wealth and private property have been confiscated.

Note to you youngsters: This has been tried many times, and it never turns out well. Never.

Well, at least he's being honest. "tax and spend" is no way to get my vote, Mr. Haircut.

Edwards has no earthly idea what it takes to do an honest day’s work and thinks we can sue ourselves into prosperity.

Edwards made his fortune by cynically manipulating what is known laughingly as the American “legal” system, into his own personal loose slot machine.

Like his dimwitted Hollywood supporters, Edwards parlayed his useless, marginal talent and good looks into a starring role.

Edwards is completely unqualified to be this nation’s Commander in Chief, but that’s par for the course for the absolutely worthless Democrat Party.

I would rather have a golden retriever as my President, than John Edwards.

Give Silky Pony credit for being honest. And him a lawyer!

This is what happens when a large neough fraction of the American people (A) don't pay much if any taxes and (B) suck on the government tit for everything from their houses to their kids' education to the drugs they take. Couple this with our sorry public education system that keeps people ignorant of the fact that the government doesn't have some magic source of its own income and it's no wonder that Edwards' rhetoric appeals to so many people. THEY won't have to pay the higher taxes; THEY will only have to sit back and enjoy all the benefits of all those government programs that Silky Pony wants to bring in.

BTW, do we REALLY think that the same people who spend $400 on a hammer can invent a way for us to achieve energy independence without drilling for our own oil?

Republican government begins to break down when the number of voters who don’t pay for services can command enough votes to raises taxes on the minority who does pay taxes and vote increased benefits to themselves. The most valid criticism of Republican Party tax cutting is that it has made the tax system so progressive that only half the population pays taxes. Those above the median income pay 99.5% of the tax bill and I believe that the top 5% pays something like a third of the taxes. John Edwards is just following the political logic of the income tax distribution. Since half of the voters don’t pay federal income tax there is now a majority who can increase the tax burden on the taxpayer and vote all sorts of goodies for their own use.

Charles Rangel has carried this logic even farther with his proposal to reduce/eliminate payroll taxes on the lower end of the distribution while at the same time making up for the lost revenue by transferring the burden to higher incomes. While FISA taxes are regressive under the current system the payout structure more then makes up for this. Social Security benefits decline relative to taxation as you move up the income ladder and Social Security payments are subject to the income tax when income is above $25K a year. You can see where this is heading. The Democrats will buy votes with government benefits while they rape the remaining taxpayers until the economy and Republican government collapses.

And this is a surprise to whom, exactly?

Our little Darling Johnny is just crawling another inch out on the left end of the spectrum, in a desperate attempt to get out of the shadow of the vastly ominous bulk of Queen Hillary the First. He has to do this "More Populist Than Thou" routine to get any traction at all nowadays, especially after he did everything but meld with the wallpaper at the recent "debate" in South Carolina.

Maybe he could move to Detroit and show us how all that high tax liberalism will really bring the workers' paradise to earth this time. Good Luck!

The Republicans deserve the beating they are getting.

Where are the campaign ads showing what you get in states like NY and Michigan? Not exactly taxing our way to prosperity, are we?

They aren't even making the effort. "We're not as bad as the Democrats" isn't exactly a winning formula, as 2006 proved.