Biden Calls (The Wealthy)Paying Higher Taxes a Patriotic Act

[tekisui]

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijhWY4xbOaT6L788T-6b9FgI2dKAD9393ULG3

[Marsala]

1. Ohhhh, they're not going to like that at all

Perfect. :evilgrin:

[tekisui]

2. It's a great frame. Are you Patriotic or Greedy?

You make the call.

[krkaufman]

5. Thus endeth the Reagan-era "Greed is good" bull***t.

Hyper-greed =~ unpatriotic; too much "me", not enough "we"

Of course, he'll be called a socialist or communist.

[NC_Nurse]

3. After years of being called unpatriotic for not being a warmonger, I LIKE this!

[Larkspur]

4. Now that's the kind of talk I like coming from the Obama/Binden camp

Good strong words and equating taxes with patriotism. Good job, Biden!

[midnight]

6. Paying your fair share is Patriotic.

[eShirl]

7. he's absolutely right

now lets see who among the wealthy squeals the loudest

[1corona4u]

8. hey, all of the celebrities in LA said as much the other night...

Even Sean Penn said to do it....

[1corona4u]

9. PS, freeperville is back up, and they don't like this...

:-)

[texasleo]

10. The headline implies that all should pay higher taxes. Not good.

[blondeatlast]

11. Heh, heh! You are either for America or you're greedy! There's no defense to that.

I LOVE Joe Biden.

[stray cat]

12. I've been hoping for this - if you support the war/troops do it for real and pay higher taxes

[stray cat]

13. Not passing the bill to the children is also a family value

The US is like parents who take out a credit card in their childs name and max it out destroying their future credit ratings.

[dgibby]

14. Message to the top 5%

Middle and lower income Americans have already paid our taxes-in blood-in Iraq and Afghanistan, so now it's your turn to share the burden. Ante up!:grr:

[jillan]

15. I'm glad he said it. How else are we going to pay for this war? All the corporate buyouts?

You gotta have money coming in or else you end up borrowing from the Chinese.

[Beaverhausen]

16. YES YES YES!!! I've been saying this for years!

Go Joe!

[Liberal Dose]

17. You know the idiotic Freepers will scream bloody hell about this, even though an extremely low

percentage of them make anywhere near 250k. :eyes: