Spread the wealth until there ain’t no more
“Spread the wealth around.” Oblivious and witless, Joe the Plumber was like those ancient Egyptian contractors who finished the secret treasure vault in the pyramids and wondered why pharaoh wanted them to precede him in the afterlife.
“Spread the wealth around” is regular Joe speak for redistributionist tax policy, in which the government takes from the Joes and keeps a fee for handling Joe’s money, then gives it out to other folks who want Joe’s money, so the other folks will love the politicians who run the government and vote for them again and again.
This is a system that works remarkably well for politicians, government workers with fat pensions and others who get Joe’s money. It doesn’t work out for the Joes, but there aren’t as many of them as there used to be. Increasingly, Joes are encouraged to get in the government soup line for what is called “their fair share.”
There aren’t as many as there used to be — and soon, there’ll be almost none at all. Why in the world would Joe bother with buying that plumbing business when the only benefit to be seen from it will be for government and the layabouts they seek to buy votes from? Why would anybody?
Short answer: they won’t. And that’ll only provide Senator Government and his communist cohorts with a further excuse, as if they needed one, to expand their reach, extend their power, and tighten their grip.
The golden goose will at last be dead. No matter; they think they can legislate golden geese back into existence, this time in a form they can more closely monitor and control. And that, my friends, is the name of the Social Democrat game. it’s never worked anywhere it’s been tried, and it never will.
And lost as they are in the orgiastic bliss of their astounding hubris and power-lust — HOPE! CHANGE! — they just don’t care.
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