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There is the general argument for taxes in general that no one is successful on their own, and since we were all part of the success we should all share in the success; but this is something substantially different than what Obama was saying ... His statement was clearly that your intelligence and hardwork had nothing to do with your success; and that success comes from the collective.

While he may not have meant it that way, what he was saying was more in line with what you would hear in the USSR or China than what you would normally hear from a leader in a capitalist nation.