Taxing the rich more creates socialized U.S.

All Americans need to understand what President Barack Obama is selling us with his class warfare message of piling on the successful people in our country. Causing the poor/middle class - 90-plus percent of Americans - to blame the very group of people who have kept us from total financial disaster only gets Obama votes and will never stop his motive of socializing our country.

You could tax the “rich/scum,” as Obama wants all of us to believe, 100 percent of their income and it would be a grain of sand on the beach of his failed economic plan of more taxes/spending. Giving him and his liberal politicians more money to spend will clearly push us further to the failed European socialized system. Currently, about 50 percent of Americans pay no federal income taxes and about the same number rely on government entitlements. Do we believe this number should go up as Obama apparently does?

The November election needs to be evaluated on what Obama has done in the last four years without blaming someone else for it.

Jim Schmitz

Marion