Could North Carolina Republican Senate Majority Leader Harry Brown be part of the vast, shadowy left-wing network that Civitas warned us about?
WRAL reported on the Republican legislative agenda, which is to say, its a secret. But the money quote appeared toward the bottom of the story, by Brown of Onslow County. He wants to rejigger sales tax revenues, the article said, to redistribute money collected in urban counties such as Wake to lower-wealth counties such as Jones, which is part of his Senate district.
Whoa, a Republican wants to redistribute wealth? That sounds like Obama socialism to me.
"What it has created over time is the wealthier counties are getting wealthier and the poorer counties are getting poorer," Brown was quoted as saying.
Welcome to America, Senator Brown, where the middle class is disappearing and the top 1 per cent of families earned 20 per cent of the country's income. That sounds like the economic system championed by the disciples of Ronald Reagan.
Lets hear from other Republicans on the idea of wealth redistribution:
We believe in free people and free enterprise, not redistribution. The right course for America is to create growth, create wealth, not to redistribute wealth.Mitt Romney
The best opportunity for someone in the lower class is a good job, and that idea should be the idea were promoting, rather than taking from one to give to another. U.S. Rep. Diane Black of Tennessee, a Ways and Means Committee member, about Obamas recent tax plan.
"Another income redistribution scheme,U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell after Obamas State of the Union speech.
The president is trying to advance his goal of wealth redistribution. U.S. Sen. James Inhofe, Oklahoma
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Socialism alert: North Carolina GOP Senator Harry Brown wants to redistribute the wealth