John “Class Warfare” McCain
Writing by abuhatem on Wednesday, 11 of June , 2008 at 5:33 pm
After Obama’s horrid economic plan, you would think that is as “class warfare” socialist you could get in America. Well, not so, because as bad as Obama’s economic plan was it does not touch the psuedoconservatism that is John Sidney McCain.
Ahem, Mr. “No Earmark,” McCain has attempted in past weeks to tout his economically conservative bona fides. The same McCain who lamented often that congress was spending money like a drunken sailor himself funded a war which has built up the biggest budget deficit in decades. And this is from a “fiscal conservative.” If thats fiscal conservatism, then who cares about earmarks. Republicans like to talk about earmarks because they realize that their wars, and democratic entitlements are the top sources of all government spending.
Anyway, McCain has truly shown his Nazism, yes Nazism or fascism, in remarks that he has given in the past two days. For McCain, taxes are a good thing, and income and death taxes make up a “patriotic duty,” a form of nationalism, for the common good. The Huffington Post reports the following on McCain’s support of the absolutely unjust death tax:
“In his 1906 State of the Union Address, President Theodore Roosevelt proposed the creation of a federal inheritance tax . Roosevelt explained: ‘The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the State because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.’ Additionally, in a 1907 speech he said: ‘Most great civilized countries have an income tax and an inheritance tax. In my judgment both should be part of our system of federal taxation.’ He noted, however, that such taxation should ‘be aimed merely at the inheritance or transmission in their entirety of those fortunes swollen beyond all healthy limits.’
“I agree with President Roosevelt, and I remain opposed to full repeal of the estate tax.”
Death taxes a “patriotic duty” and “obligation to the State” is not conservatism, it is fascist Statist paternalism at its worst. But not only is McCain’s über-patriotism manifest in his tax policy, it seems to be a recurring theme for his campaign. Only last February McCain said that in America’s imperialistic adventures in Vietnam he had “led the largest squadron in the United States Navy, not for profit, but for patriotism,” which distressed pro-growth conservatives even at the pro-war Wall Street Journal. McCain is surely no true conservative, nor true capitalist. I can see antiwar Russell Kirk rolling in his grave right now at McCain’s über-patriotism, his support for American democratic imperialist neoconservatism, and his “100 years of war” remark. Obviously, John Sidney McWar has no place in Kirk’s The Conservative Mind. Surely, even the most irrational reader will inquire “from whence did conservatism mean imperialism?” for without doubt it cannot be found in Burke, Eliot, or Santayana.
Yet fascist John McCain’s socialistic class warfare rhetoric does not even stop there. McCain’s socialism extends further. As the Financial Times reports, McCain said the following today:
“Something is seriously wrong when the American people are left to bear the consequences of reckless corporate conduct, while the offenders themselves are packed off with another $40m or $50m for the road.. if I am elected president, I intend to see that wrongdoing of this kind is called to account by federal prosecutors. And under my reforms, all aspects of a CEO’s pay, including any severance arrangements, must be approved by shareholders.”
So the death tax and income taxes are patriotic? Government spending of our tax money on imperial wars fulfills our “obligation to the State,” and fighting in these imperial wars expresses our “serving the State.” And to top it all off, McCain will go after honest commerce and business if he finds that CEO’s of corporations are making too much. Oh please, and he keeps repeating that the National Journal calls Obama the most liberal in the senate? Give me a liberal democrat before a pseudo-republican socialist. Barack “Class Warfare” Obama trumps John “Class Warfare” McCain, for the true conservatives at least.
Category: American Politics, Economics
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