This kind of talk from George Will, on today’s This Week With George Stephanopolous, is just disgusting:

I think there’s a radical sense of dislocation. They think we have adopted an economic model of Lemon Socialism, transferring wealth from the successful to the unsuccessful. That is not a long-term recipe for national success.

Translated into current reality, Will is saying that because Obama has proposed to restore the top tax rate for the top 5% of income tax payers and cut taxes on the remaining 95%, this is “transferring wealth from the successful to the unsuccessful“.

“Unsuccessful“? Seriously!? This is a sentiment that pervades American culture that frankly disgusts me. Far too many people in this country labor under the latent notion that you’re not “successful” until you make a lot of money. To suggest that a dockworker, machinist or plumber making a good living at, say, $75,000 per year is somehow “unsuccessful” is shameful. And we wonder why Americans have grown so disgusted with the conservative elites in Washington…