Sen. Max Baucus: Obamacare Was An "Income Shift"

I seem to remember Joe the Plumber asking Obama about "spreading the wealth around" which sounded an awful lot like socialism. Joe was pilloried for suggesting that Obama had socialism in mind for his policies.

Today Sen. Max Baucus confirmed that the purpose of Obamacare is not to fix health care, but to redistribute income (from Hugh Hewitt):

In an unusual speech on the Senate floor moments ago, Max Baucus declares that the "healthcare bill" to be "an income shift, it is a shift, a leveling to help lower income middle income Americans." Baucus continued, "[t]oo often, much of late, the last couple three years the mal-distribution of income in America is gone up way too much, the wealthy are getting way, way too wealthy, and the middle income class is left behind. Wages have not kept up with increased income of the highest income in America. This legislation will have the effect of addressing that mal-distribution of income in America."

Of course, many of us knew that was the goal all along.