Paying Higher Taxes Is Patriotic Says Biden, Who Averaged $245,000 Per Year In Salary For 10 Years But Only Averaged $380 In Charitable Donations
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says that paying higher taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. …
Biden told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursdaythat, in his words, “it’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, timeto be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
He also blames our current financial crisis on tax cuts, which makes no sense at all:
We should try to correct the problems that caused this. And what’s caused this? The profligate tax cuts to the very, verywealthy that John wants to continue. What’s caused this is the failureto have regulation so that, in fact — John talks about these CEO’sgetting these big bailout packages.
Now Biden wants to tell us that paying higher taxes is patriotic. 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. Who gets Biden’s earmarks? Why can’t Biden be patriotic and forgo earmarks?
Most Americans look at their tax bite and figure they’re patriotic enough. They’d prefer electing people who start acting responsibly with their money, rather than demand even more from them to prove their patriotism.