Marcus: Government is about sharing

Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post writes a column today entitled “The Socialist Scare” in which she berates John McCain for calling Obama’s tax plan “socialist”. She throws some crumbs in about Obama’s minor missteps to make it appear as though she’s trying to be fair, but she saves the best nugget for the end when she tries tell us that it’s government’s job to make us socialists;

“I make over $250,000 a year, between my wife and I,” Thomas Jacoby, a 62-year-old contractor, tells me in Woodbridge. “I don’t want to share it with anybody.”

As any parent understands, sharing is not the most natural of human instincts. But government is fundamentally about sharing for the common good; taxes are, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said, the price of a civilized society.

Since when is it government’s job to force us to share? Where in the Preamble to our Constitution, generally accepted as the purpose and scope of our Constitution, does it mention “sharing for the common good”?

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Actually, Marcus says that it’s government’s job to be socialist, that’s her defense that Obama isn’t a socialist. I suppose that’s why there are so many morons voting for Obama…they don’t even realize how we got here in the first place. And it’s government’s job to protect us from the imbeciles, foreign and domestic,  who want to steal our stuff.

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