From The Associated Press:
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans.
Biden says he and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama want to “take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people.”
Under the Democrats’ economic plan, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.
Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday that, in his words, “it’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
Huh?
Says Ed Morrissey:
You know what would be patriotic? Congressmen like Barack Obama and Joe Biden attacking government spending, not trying to beef up government revenues (and doing so in the most destructive way, by attacking capital needed for investment). Biden could be patriotic by revealing his pork-barrel record, something he has consistently failed to do.
You know, I have a great idea. Before you can vote in any federal election you have to show where you had to pay federal taxes first.
Wouldn’t Socialists, therefore, be the most patriotic people on Earth since they don’t get to keep any of their income?
If the new patriotism is paying higher taxes, then proposing tax cuts must be unpatriotic. Therefore former President Reagan must have been really unpatriotic. As was John Kennedy.
Biden looks more like the European candidate than the US Democratic candidate.
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1 Linz // Sep 18, 2008 at 11:01 am
The regular modern day Robin Hood, that Obama. Sheesh. It’s still criminal.
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