This regime is now on record as having stated that this is its goal, so now it has to live with it. When it was pointed out to White House aide Jason Furman that the Buffett rule would not make a dent worth talking about in the federal deficit, he acknowledged that that wasn't the purpose in the proposed implememntation. It was about making the tax code more "fair."
How much more plain can this bunch make its collectivist aims?
The Most Equal Comrade and everyone he has enlisted to serve in his regime really do think that individual achievement is morally suspect. Not only that, since the Buffet rule is really just a way to double the capital gains tax, this regime plainly views belief in the dreams of others to accomplish and contribute great things, as expressed by investment in those dreams, to be just as morally suspect. Wealth creation, capital formation, money naturally flowing to its most productive uses - they despise these bedrock principles of societal health.
So the task before us - in the short period of six-plus months, and with far from the most effective spokesperson for the stakes involved as the public face of our stance - is to swell the ranks of those who understand how freedom and prosperity are cultivated. Unlike economics, politics is a zero-sum game. We will get newcomers to our cause from the ranks of those who may be considering the other view, the view that there is something wrong with keeping one's own money, and something wrong with succeeding at the aims one has crafted for one's own life.
Freedom and fairness are both essential conditions for human well-being, but only one of those conditions can occupy the top spot. Freedom is more important than fairness. For one thing, it's easier to define. Witness the Most Equal Comrade's facile distortion of the latter term.
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