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Readers, it’s been pretty scary to hear about Barack Obama’s radical Marxist-Socialist-Communist plans to “spread the wealth around.” If you’re a good American, like me, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Sarah Palin, et al., you recognize Commie doublespeak like this for what it is:

Obama explained his tax plan during the roughly five-minute exchange — telling Wurzelbacher that the tax rate on the portion of his income that was more than $250,000 would be increased from 36 percent to 39 percent. But he also mentioned that his plan includes a 50 percent small-business tax credit for health care and a proposal to eliminate the capital-gains tax for small businesses that increase in value. Obama said his tax plan, which he said focuses on bigger breaks for people making lower incomes, would be good for the economy. “If you’ve got a plumbing business, you’re going to be better off if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you,” he said. “Right now, everybody’s so pinched that business is bad for everybody. And I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”

Comrade Obama’s plan definitely sounds doubleplusungood to me, readers.

But, my friends, it gets worse. Even Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, was a goddamn commie, too. See The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Chapter II, and just imagine what Joe the Plumber (if they’d had plumbers back in 1776, that is) would have made of this:

The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

Yikes, readers. I guess Adam Smith, too, was just a typical socialist left-winger, always trying to punish any hard-working citizen who earns a bit of financial success. Adam “Hussein” Smith just wanted to take money out of the pockets of hard-working “Joe Six-Pack” types (if they’d had six-packs back in 1776, that is) and give it to a bunch of shiftless layabouts.

Just like Obama.