Redistribution policies are generally aimed at the upper classes...not the middle class.   The argument goes that government takes upper class money to service programs for the lower classes.  It's not generally a middle class burden.  

So if John McCain is arguing that there is a secretive, redistribution of wealth agenda behind Obama's tax policy he is suggesting that the middle class will have to pay downwards to support the lower classes. 

Obviously he can't possibly be suggesting that they would redistribute income upwards. I mean, boo hoo if the investor class might feel they deserve relief!  Who cars that the upper income is crying poor from their equity investment losses! In this economic climate?

More likely, McCain's redistribution argument to "working class, joe the whatever" voters is meant to scare that same white, working class voter into believing that Obama is going to take their money and give it to those in the income class below them.  That's right; redistribute to Hispanics, African Americans, and welfare "do nothings" who don't deserve it.

That's just wrong.

McCain is trying to scare voters into believing that Obama is ushering in some sort of impoverishing welfare state model that is going to impoverish everyone when in fact Obama is only going to tax those who have done quite well over the past 8 years...himself included.  Most of those folks affected by new taxes might have to sell a vacation home but they will still make ends meet. They don't need help right now.

What those same middle class voters don't realize is that they, too, will be part of that lower class if McCain and the fiscally insane, supply-side Republicans win.  They (middle class workers) aren't going to be part of any economic gain scenario, but part of  the story of  increasing wealth concentration in the upper income brackets and stagnant, just-get-by economic realities in the middle and lower classes.  That's how it's been, and that's how it will be.

From a distance this seems to be nothing more than a subliminal racist attack disguised as an economic policy difference.  It is covert-in-plain-sight bullshit argument but no one will ask McCain where this redistributed money might have to go, or to whom.  It's the bogey monster of tax fear that "hard working Americans" are going to be saddled with compatriot dead, economic weight (read minorities) while the hard-working, real Americans suffer the white man's burden.

Though it's subtile attack, someone ought to call McCain on this...along with that dopey, ditz-bag Palin who's behaving more and more like Marie Antoinette..."Let them wear Wal-Mart clothes!...and eat day-old cake."