Obama and the Virtue of Selfishness

If you're confused about Barack Hussein Obama's tax plan and you're still asking the question, "Will he raise my taxes?" as Joe the Plumber did, make no mistake - Obama is going to raise taxes on the middle class:The Virtue of Selfishness

By Robert Romano

"John McCain and Sarah Palin they call [my tax plan] socialistic. You know I don't know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness."--Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

The real question surrounding Barack Obama's tax plan is not whether the ultimate moral virtue is to act to preserve one's own well-being, a debate that Ayn Rand provoked with her collection of essays, "The Virtue of Selfishness," where she described that the exact meaning of selfishness was "concern with one's own interests."

And it is not whether the redistribution of wealth is socialistic--"from each according to their ability [or income], to each according to their need" is clearly a Marxist principle (emphasis mine).

Nor is it about whether Senator Obama advocated the redistribution of wealth, for he clearly said, "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

These questions are already settled. The real question now is: just how low can his campaign go?   (Continue reading here...)