Palin Hits Obama Hard

Ouch.

“Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth,” she said. “Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic. But Joe the plumber and Ed the dairy man, I believe that they think that it sounds more like socialism. Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism.”

Her nod to “Ed the dairy man” was apparently a reference to a voter in the audience.

The vice presidential candidate claimed Obama’s plan to issue tax credits to lower-income workers amounts to little more than a series of government handouts.

“He claims that he’ll cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, but the problem is more than 40 percent of Americans pay no income taxes at all,” she said. “So how can you cut income taxes for folks who don’t pay them?”