SubscribeRobin Hood didn’t steal from Plumbers
Obama is no Robin Hood.
Brits at their Best have a great piece on the misguided notion that Obama is some sort of Robin Hood, taking from the rich and giving to the poor. Obama’s plan sounds great for the plumber who is working hard to make ends meet, but what about when the plumber’s hard work and dedication put him in a position to fulfill his dreams and start his own business, hire his own employees, and pay them a salary?
The Senator explained that he wants to “spread the wealth around”. It sounds lovely, doesn’t it, even if it means that hard-working plumbers, small shop owners, and risk-taking entrepreneurs are going to be taxed more heavily? The New York Post called it a warning shot from Robin Hood, but mistakenly identified Robin - 1) Robin Hood did not steal from entrepreneurs. He stole from the Sheriff of Nottingham and from rich clergy - the tax men - to return their money to those who had earned it. His target was the rapacious state. 2) Robin Hood did not rob plumbers.
What people are buying into with Obama’s cockamamie scheme is a system that will penalize them for working towards success. That isn’t the principles America was founded on.
Indeed, the founders had all been British subjects, and like Robin Hood they understood the principle of predatory taxation very well. It’s a smaller step than we may think from the government deciding that entrepreneurs making more than $250,000 should be taxed to the gills to deciding that teachers on a retirement pension are receiving too much pay. It happened in the USSR. It happened in Prague.
At its heart, this kind of tax the rich rhetoric that Obama spins is sheer Marxist class warfare. The logical conclusion is lowering the bar until everyone can take heart knowing “at least no one else has it better than I.” The conservative ideology is removing the bar altogether.
