Are We Becoming a Nation of Thieves?

Written By: Lee Duigon  |  Posted: Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

             A Gallup Poll released last week claims that roughly half of Americans believe "the government should enact heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth in the U.S."

            This is truly shameful. Could anything be more crass? When I was growing up, government redistribution of wealth was known as "communism." Everybody laughed at Khrushchev for predicting, "Your grandchildren will live under communism." (Ironically enough, his grandchildren won't!) But according to Gallup, "a solid majority of Americans, 57%, believe money and wealth in the U.S. should be more evenly distributed among the people." Looks like Nikita knew which way the wind was blowing, doesn't it?

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