President Obama is only the latest “progressive” president to advocate Robin Hood’s ways, “Take from the rich, give to the poor.” During his last campaign, in Ohio when he told Joe the Plumber that his goal is to “spread the wealth around,” sentient beings went to high alert, the mainstream media went into protect and defend mode, and sadly too many voters swooned, particularly the young whose brains are undeveloped and many of the “99%” who went giddy with fantasies of financial comfort raining from “Obama’s stash.”

In an oft-repeated and nonetheless clever metaphor, Carthage College students seek out fellow students to support their scheme to “redistribute” grade point averages from the top 10% to the remaining 90% to account for the burdens of race, gender, income inequality, sexual orientation and other “disabilities” that cause some students to perform poorly compared to the privileged class.

Members of Young America’s Foundation (Carthage College tax redistribution scheme) find many willing Littlejohns and Friar Tucks, reminiscent of the late Senator Russell Long who famously quipped, “Don’t tax him. Don’t tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree!”  Two highlights are, (1) a student who declines signing the redistribution petition and admonished his lazy friend, suggesting, “trying harder for a semester?” and, (2) what appears to be a professor who is appalled at the notion but most likely is a proud supporter of the “Occupy” movement.

The President and his acolytes embrace the fallacy of the economy being a zero-sum  proposition, that is, wealth is fixed and the “winners of life’s lottery,” as former Democrat Minority Leader Richard Gephardt argued, control it. The President’s actions, not his words, other than an occasional slip like with Joe, expose his deep-rooted beliefs. “Beliefs” may be too strong a word. He’s a shallow thinker – instinct is more appropriate.

Simply, he is convinced that in his infinite wisdom he can harmonize the needs of the many against the luck of the few. As Ronald Reagan might have said, “He sees a fat man standing next to a skinny man and “knows” the fat man stole the skinny man’s lunch.” President OBama knows it.

We now have a tax structure in which 47% of working Americans pay no income tax, the general fund that supports government spending on the “greater good.” The redistributionists immediately howl that they do pay taxes, Social Security and Medicare, sales taxes and the like.  But Social Security and Medicare are in effect, forced savings, dedicated for specific (unaffordable) goals and sales taxes don’t apply to most necessities, food, medicine, and other needs which shield the “poor” to some degree from regressive taxation.   Simply, the “1%” use far fewer government services than do the “99%”, but, the “1%” are glad to provide to a point and assure social stability, not to mention expand the consumer base for the products and services it produces – Think Bill Gates and fraudster, Warren Buffett.

And, as in campaign finance and so many other left-wing obsessions, the “rich” got that way mostly because they are smart, or employ smart advisors and routinely structure their affairs to advantage themselves against the Left’s latest assaults. Which keeps the Left energized to create new schemes . . . that fail.