From James @ GOP.com:

Barack Obama’s publicly noted interest in wealth redistribution extends far beyond his brief, but telling exchange with Joe ‘The Plumber’ Wurzelbacher.  Since the fiercely contested Democratic primary, Obama has toed a consistently pro-tax, pro-spending line, and if you asked his campaign strategists, they’d probably say that helped pave the way to his victory.  However, Obama’s positions on taxes have neither appealed to nor evidenced common sense in the eyes of everyone, for example ABC’s Charlie Gibson who moderated the Democratic debate in Philadelphia in April.  Clearly unprepared for a night of intense questioning, Obama was unable to offer a viable explanation regarding his intention to raise the capital gains tax when Gibson noted that raising the capital gains tax does not increase government revenue, but instead does quite the opposite.

It turns out Charlie Gibson and the GOP haven’t been alone in querying the sensibility of Obama’s capital gains tax proposals, though.  Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Wayne Huizenga, owner of the Miami Dolphins, intends to sell up to half of his ownership in the NFL team for fear of excessive taxes.  Barack Obama, he said to a Florida newspaper, "wants to double the capital gains tax, or almost double it. I'd rather give it to charity than to him.”

As Obama’s economic proposals state, he aims, in the spirit of “fairness,” to raise taxes, including, as the WSJ points out, the capital gains tax from 15% to 20%. And his plans to do so represent another way in which Obama’s economic proposals are wrong-headed.  His redistributionist approach will penalize investments, risk jobs as businesses cope with skyrocketing taxes, and raise taxes on ordinary American citizens precisely when our nation needs the opposite.  And, apparently, if you live in Miami, result in ownership changes to your local NFL franchise!

From Liz @ GOP.com:

Over the last few weeks, there’s been plenty of focus among the media and individual voters alike on Barack Obama’s statement that “when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody.”  That is especially so given that Obama has indicated that he does not regret making this comment in his now well-known conversation with Joe the Plumber.

Today, however, we gather that that conversation was not the first time where Obama had indicated an interest in wealth-redistribution.  In an interview from 2001 that Obama did with Chicago radio station WBEZ (h/t Drudge), he seemed to signal his regret that the Supreme Court (and the Warren Court, specifically) “never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth.”  Hmmm….

Setting aside Obama’s comment to Joe the Plumber, a quick glance at his economic proposals would indicate that as president, he’ll be ready to venture into the issue of redistribution of wealth.  The New Hampshire Union Leader really called it when they wrote that Obama “proposes to use the power of the state to redistribute outcomes as he prefers to see them” and that his policies amount to “failed redistributionism wrapped in pretty new paper.”

Just something to bear in mind before you head to the polls next week, should you be one of the many Americans, including many members of the middle class, who does not want your wealth spread around by Mr. Hope-and-Change, aided by his allies, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid…

Politico’s Jonathan Martin notes comments made by John McCain this morning:

This election comes down to how you want your hard earned money spent. Do you want to keep it and invest it in your future, or have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the Presidency and the Democratic leaders who have been running congress for the past two years -- Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?

No, I do not.  Nor do I want the federal government to spend an additional $1.297 trillion over the next four years, which is another thing that Barack Obama promises to do as president.

From James @ GOP.com:

ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) recently has garnered national attention in connection with the issue of vote fraud.  As you may know, in February ACORN’s political action committee endorsed Obama for president, and earlier this month found itself “implicated in voter-fraud schemes 15 states.”

While Obama’s ties to ACORN are troubling, he’s not the only prominent Democrat who has them.  According to today’s Boston Herald, Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA), Obama’s national campaign co-chairman, represented the left-wing, scandal-plagued group in a 1993 law suit, and even went so far as to secure a $33,000 grant for the embattled organization’s Springfield branch this year.

It’s astounding Governor Patrick would even consider dolling out taxpayer funds to Obama’s friends at ACORN.  It’s all the more concerning that he actually did it.