Mike Granby wrote:
True or not, his use of "spreading the wealth" was
not related to raising taxes on the rich.


Rubbish! He was answering a question about raising taxes on people
earning over $250k. He said that it wasn't that he wanted to punish
anyone's sucess (ie. by raising taxes) and then he want on to explain
his trickle-up theory. You simply can't rewrite history and claim that
this was somehow not related to the taxation discussion.

Fair enough. But, folks have been using his "spread the wealth" comment
to argue he's a socialist who wants to punish the rich. That's
bull****. He supports progressive taxation because he shares the same
philosophy about the importance of the middle class as Henry Ford did.

Josh Rosenbluth