This is bugging me now...

So I am going to go a bit farther than I originally intended.

Joe Biden says it is our "patriotic duty" to pay higher taxes, and Obama has said that the "good of Society" outweighs the good of the individual (sounds shockingly like Spock, doesn't it?).

Say what you will, I take this to mean that they both agree with the all-too-familiar socialist slogan, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs".

When Louis Blanc wrote those words (and it WAS Blanc, NOT Marx, no matter what Andrew Wilkow might tell you!), he was describing an ideal state. Outside of a 1960's commune or the earliest Christian communities in the decades immediately following Christ's Ascension, this precept has NEVER been applicable to a group of people larger than a few hundred. Anyone that argues otherwise is simply, and unequivocally, WRONG.

The more you make, the more you are taxed. The less you make, the more you are given. Where is the incentive to IMPROVE our lives in this kind of society? How do we instill in our children the drive to succeed, if the success they achieve is something they are penalized for later?

If, through dedication and hard work, the "labor" of a craftsman can bring an increase in wealth and prosperity to his family... but that increase is spread to those neighbors that DO NOT show dedication or hard work, then the wealth and prosperity (the easiest and most measurable aspects of success in ANY society) the craftsman has worked for is reduced, and he must work even harder to gain that which he has already worked to achieve.

On the other hand, if the "non-working" laborer (not an invalid, elderly or infant person, obviously) sees his wealth and prosperity REDUCED by increasing his efforts and labors (i.e. working for a greater wage), where is the incentive then? If he has three children that he cannot afford to feed or provide for, but knows that having MORE children will INCREASE his income at the expense of OTHERS (rather than himself), isn't it reasonable to expect him to stay at home and have more children rather than work harder to provide greater wealth or success?

This, my friends, is the CLASSIC definition of "wealth redistribution"... no two ways about it.

THIS is what Obama/Biden is advocating as Executive policy in their administration, and THIS is why I cannot vote for them.