Karl Marx, Socialism, and Spreading the wealth around

So Barack Obama meets a phony plumber who asks why he should have to pay more taxes if he were to take over a business he does not own. Obama's reply is that we should spread the wealth around, more or less. I'm not quoting here, so don't accuse me of not giving the whole exchange or quoting out of context.

Now the whole media and the whole right wing are in a frenzy, bringing up "socialism" and "Karl Marx" and the quote, "To each according to his need, to each according to his ability."

Joe Biden even went on a news program and was asked if Obama was a Marxist.

The only reason I call all of this silly nonsense is because the media and the right wing have JUST NOW, JUST NOW decided to call the democrats on what they've always stood for which is income redistribution.

So all these years of social security, medicaid, welfare, food stamps, Great Society, War on Poverty, etc etc etc. All those decades of all those entitlements and the media and the right are just now calling the Dems on it. WOW!! No wonder our country is in the messed up state it's in. We live under this both idiotic and corrupt regime propped up by an idiotic and corporate interlocking directorate controlled media.

Whenever you require higher income people to pay a higher tax rate than lower income people for the purposes of social welfare benefits, that's income redistribution. That's socialism.

Granted, we do not have a brand of socialism in this country anywhere near like the European Union. They have extremely high taxes for everything and most of the people love it. They think they're giving to the "greater good." They give their people "free" healthcare. So we definitely aren't as socialist as they are.

And I am not totally against social programs to help the very poor in our society, but it should be limited to people in genuine need, not lazy bums who don't wanna work or want to keep having more kids at everyone else's expense.