Edwards Runs on Raising Taxes (People LOVE to hear that…)
The Silky Ponyâ„¢ wants everyone to go to preschool and college and he wants to raise everyone’s taxes to do it! It is rare for any politician to be this honest about an idea that NO one likes, paying higher taxes. The Concord Monitor has the story.
Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten, create matching savings accounts for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called “College for Everyone.”
“It is central to what I want to do as president to do something about economic inequality. I do not believe it is okay for the United States of America to have 37 million people living in poverty,” he said in a meeting with Monitor reporters and editors this week. “And I think we need, desperately need, a president who will say that to America and call on Americans to show their character.”
Um, if everyone goes to college, who will work on our cars, build our houses, flip our damned burgers? College is not for everyone, and everyone is not for college. While a well educated populace is a lofty (and worthwhile) goal, this idea simply ignores reality. There will ALWAYS be a need for menial labor, the gardeners, the roofers, the fast food employees, mandating that everyone goes to college is as pointless as it is expensive (hint: Very)
Edwards’ proposals would do nothing more than apply a fresh layer of lubricant to the slippery slope to socialism idealized by the extreme left. All this talk about “Leveling the playing field” and obvious class warfare attacks like this:
“I think if we want to fund the things that I think are important to share in prosperity, then people who have done well in this country, including me, have more of a responsibility to give back,” he said.
are good examples of how to lower productivity. If there is no incentive for exceptional performance, what reason is there to work hard? I’ve always thought the best illustration of this is the automotive industries in the US and Japan (free societies)
vs those of the Soviet Union (Not so free society…) 
Category: Politics
After the wall came down, I actually saw a Trabant in a dumpster.
Slap in the face from the Silk Pony? Is he suggesting that just because I keep the 65% of my gross income that isn’t taxed, that I don’t just give it away to anyone who needs it, I’m not a true American?
The government has it’s hands in my pockets deep enough as it is. Being American is about self relliance. I’m not interested in living in a new nanny state.