Joe Biden: "You Call It Redistribution of Wealth… I Call It Being Fair" (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 9:10 PM
Crazy Uncle Joe told Yahoo reporter Aaron Task that he prefers the socialist phrase “just being fair” over the socialist phrase “redistribution of wealth.”
Yahoo Finance reported, via Free Republic:
In part two of my exclusive interview, I asked the Vice President whether we can afford these tax cuts, given the country’s massive federal deficits. Biden’s view is that we can’t afford not to do them: “We can’t afford to leave the middle class behind,” he says. “These things matter to people who are struggling and they matter to people who have lost their jobs as well.”
There’s also the issue of whether these tax cuts, in conjunction with the health care reform bill signed last week, represent a redistribution of wealth in America, as many claim.
“It’s a simple proposition to us: Everyone is entitled to adequate medical health care,” Biden says. “If you call that a ‘redistribution of income’ — well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair — giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.”
The top quintile of Americans earned 55.7% of pretax income and paid 69.3% of federal taxes in 2006, according to the most recent CBO data. But the Vice President isn’t buying the idea that the wealthiest are already paying their fair share, noting the top 1% of earners get 22% of all income made in the U.S.
“Taxes have been lowered for the wealthy considerably over the years,” he says. “It’s about time we get a little tax equity here.”
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GrayRider commented:
It’s “fair” when it’s redistribution (government theft) with everyone else’s money but Joe’s and Joe gets to be the decider.
bg commented:
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“You Call It Redistribution of
Wealth… I Call It Being Fair”
oh yeah.. perhaps in your Grasshopper
rule the village world it is.. not in mine!!
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Zipity commented:
Gee…it looks like for Joe, “..math is hard”
so cal chick commented:
What could Joe “F-ing” Biden possibly understand about the concept of fairness when he’s out lying in order to push the statist agenda? Fair? What’s fair about me working all week just to have Big Bro confiscate half of my earnings to hand over to an ever-increasingly number of slacker dependents? This is not a safety net it’s a dependent class of Americans. Ponzi scheme CBO numbers plus outrageous Govt. waste completely dismantle this B.S. ‘fairness’ argument. Fairness – just another crapped out, leftist term that is meaningless and does nothing but weaken the nation and its citizens.
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Militant Conservative commented:
Fair is what a maiden looks like.
Your a blood sucking leach stealing from me and my family to support others who WILL NOT WORK.
The Watcher commented:
Here’s what I think is ‘fair’: we gather together a number of poor people that equals the number of Democrats in Congress, the WH and in Justice. We then match a poor person with a ‘fairness’ Democrat and inform said ‘fairness’ Democrat that, for the remainder of the life of their assigned poor person, they must, by law, split their income and give half to said poor person. As far as determining who is ‘poor’, let’s use the Government’s definition – what is it, 200% of poverty level or something?
I think that’s fair, don’t you?
bg commented:
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Who Pays the Taxes in the USA ?
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gus commented:
Joe they call you Vice President.
I call you DOUCHE BAG.
bg commented:
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The Watcher @ 1:57 pm #6
yes, those who want to take from others must
give to others, sounds more than fair to me..
Who Gives and Who Doesn’t?
Democrats wake up to being the party of the rich
Liberal tightwads
but hey, it’s the talk, uh, thought that counts, right?? /sarc/
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bill-tb commented:
Socialist mean fair by over half you earn you give to someone else. Maybe we should all quit, just to be fair and collect our fair share. That’s how it worked out in Venezuela, who just this week is on electricity (holy) holiday.
Most Americans would call this what it is — STEALING
bg commented:
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oh my my, what to do, laugh or cry, *sigh*
Biden gave average of $369 to charity a year [9/12/08]
[Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife gave an average of $369 a year to charity during the past decade, his tax records show.]
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SteveCan commented:
Well Joe, I’m thinking about “what’s fair” … I’d like to be living at your place, And I think it would be “fair”, what do you say, we can move in ASAP.
alaskan commented:
But I thought he called it ‘patriotic’?!?!
If it’s FAIR then why did the Democrats EXEMPT taxes on Venezula’s oil revenue in the U.S.????
Opus #6 commented:
The Liberals thought to keep our children ignorant of socialism all these years. Well, our kids are getting a good dose of information, up close and personal now. I predict no big dem victories for the duration of this generation, about the next 50 years.
Opaobie commented:
It won’t be fair until they are under all the same laws we are and pay all the same taxes we pay. Can we just “deem” it fair, keep our property and rights, and move on?
NeoKong commented:
But it is the Republicans who are making people mad…..
jd commented:
life isn’t fair. anyone who promises that they can make it more fair is vying for votes. or your money. or sometimes both.
Flyover Sam commented:
For once, I completely agree with VP Biden. I just walked across the street to my rich Democrat neighbors house. Good thing they were home, as it gave me the opportunity to tell them a thing or two as I walked out with their second 52″ plasma HDTV.
They were screaming some incoherent teabagging nutball crap about theft and robbery. I merely pointed out the following inescapably obvious logic:
“If you call that a ‘theft’ — well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair. And so does our Government.”
Better yet, on the way out I noticed they had not one but two brand new BMWs. I’ll be back tomorrow.
pm commented:
OMgosh, OT, but read Drudge:
NYC cops on the trains today with submachine guns…
bg commented:
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and lest not forget he wanted redistribute Iraq as well.. gah, this man is the VP & he’s only 1 degree of separation from President “it’s all about me, King of the Grasshoppers & my agenda” Obama..
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Diane commented:
Why is it that liberals always have a monopoly on the definition of “fair”? I happen to think that getting to keep what you earn, and spend it or donate it according to your own discretion and wisdom is fair.
bg commented:
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Flyover Sam @ 2:41 pm #19
KUDOS!!
ROTFLMBO!!
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Sandy commented:
You know what’s fair Biden — you Obama and Congress should give your money to the poor first. Then we’ll talk.
rider commented:
Hey-Joe–don’t take the $15,000+ a month “pension” that you guys voted for yourselves while you were in the Senate–give it to our troops instead…….and -refuse the taxpayer subsidized ‘salary’ that you get now as VP—that’s fair…
R-CS
Ian Christopher commented:
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate
energy policy.
You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn’t get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
AuntieMadder commented:
Hey, Uncle Joe. I’m broke. Send me some of your $$$. It’s only fair.
Mo commented:
This from the man who gave no money to charities until the last year or two? These dems, Biden, Obama, Gore want to take the wealth of those of us who choose to help others through donating time and money. We put our money where our mouths are. They want to put our money where their mouths are!!!!
Alana commented:
They lie. They are trying to destroy the middle class.
bg commented:
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Ian Christopher @ 3:05 pm #26
aside from who cares, i have two words for your list
of thoroughly debunked propaganda talking points..
BULLS HIT!!
okay, maybe two more..
IDI IT!!
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jomojava commented:
Be careful!
Nobody, I mean nobody, messes with Joe.
Chisum commented:
BG,
May I add…AssTroll?
Zipity commented:
Oh look…Ian is one of those hateful Libtards.
He didn’t get mad when Obama fiddled like Nero while Iran creates nuclear weapons and brings the world to the brink of Armageddon.
He didn’t get mad when Obama shunned all of Americas traditional allies.
He didn’t get mad when Obama proposed warrant-less tracking of every American’s cellphone.
He didn’t get mad when Obama enlarged and reauthorized the Patriot Act.
He didn’t get mad when Obama expanded the Afghanistan War.
He didn’t get mad when Obama spent trillions of dollars we don’t have.
He didn’t get mad when Obama embraced violent dictaors like Hugo Chavez, Assad, Putin, etc.
He didn’t get mad when Obama bailed out the big banks.
He didn’t get mad when Obama didn’t close Guantanamo.
He didn’t get mad when Obama stopped the voter intimidation lawsuit against the New Black Panthers.
He didn’t get mad when Obama appointed multiple tax cheats to key government positions.
He didn’t get mad when Obama incited violence by exhorting his followers to “get in their faces”.
He didn’t get mad when Obama changed the rules of engagement in Afghanistan so that unless an insurgent is currently holding a weapon, you cannot return fire, even if he just shot at you and laid down his weapon, endangering our soldiers.
He won’t get mad when Obamas insane spending makes horrendous tax increases unavoidable, and crashes our economy completely.
Did I miss anything Ian?
KR commented:
We The People will have our turn at saying what’s fair in November.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Well that’s it, it’s settled, Joe F.U. Biden, said it’s fair. The hell with the fact that it’s unconstitutional, Joe F.U. Biden said it’s fair. We are going to change 200+years, because Joe F.U. Biden said so. I’ll fight a civil war, before I settle for 60 people, and an Indonesian citizen parading around as President, thinking they can call the shots for 300 million +. You hear that Joe, F.U.
Joanne commented:
Let’s call it crazy.
Fair as in Congress and the Senate do not have to have Obamacare, just the peons do? Where is the fairness in that – good for the goose, good for the gander, except in socialism.
Obama likes to say ‘because it is right’. I wonder what he thinks about liars?
DocScience commented:
Pretty interesting for a man who makes over $300,000/yr and has the selfishness to only donate $479/yr to charity. Biden is a typical liberal hypocrite.
If liberals were only 1/10th as good as they believe themselves to be, the world would be a better place.
Sadly, 1/10th would be aspirational.
kate commented:
If God wanted the world to be fair, he would have given us the instinct for charity.
Ooops.
This is not the province of the government! This is our mitzvah. It’s for our growth.
Harrison commented:
New IRS tax form:
1. How much did you make?
2. Send it in!
JC commented:
” “If you call that a ‘redistribution of income’ — well, so be it. I don’t call it that. I call it just being fair”,
Well, Mr. Higher-I.Q.-Than-You, I just call it what everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together calls it, “Thievery”. That simple enough for you, Mr. Wizard?
These scumbags are operating like they truly believe there will be no repercussions for them or their children they’re trying to set up in their new aristocracy. F*#&ing dolts!
Liar Thiefson commented:
We are now employing our collective, central planning genius to figure out how we’ll get along once we’ve destroyed the racist, unjust private sector and we’ve wasted your last dollar.
Larkin commented:
Middle class, my ass.
The term “middle class” is used to justify every action of leftist politicians. Their every policy is supposedly enacted in the best interest of the middle class.
Hogwash. They are in the process of dismantling the middle class in favor of welfare recipients, big labor and illegal immigrants.
Galt commented:
Let’s redistribute government power. We can use the Tenth Amendment as a guide: only enumerated rights to the feds, the rest to the states AND THE PEOPLE.
It’s more than fair: the law requires it.
bg commented:
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Larkin @ 6:36 pm #43
or as Obama et al would put it:
“Disavowal of the Pursuit of Middleclassness”
if anyone doesn’t know where it came
from or what it means.. google it..
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bg commented:
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Liar Thiefson @ 6:20 pm #42
not to worry, Obama‘s gonna save US!!
“I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
‘We are God’s partners in matters of life and death’
‘my individual salvation is not gonna come about
without a collective salvation for the country’ …
Father Obama, Mother Gaia
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archer52 commented:
Jim’s right. They are not only in charge, they control media, companies, bureaucracy, education and much of what effects your every day life. We had a saying in police work when an operation went south badly.
“We in the sh** now!” Brother and sisters, we are definitely at that point. Here is the question, well actually two.
1. Where is the tipping point? Is it now? Is it when the left recruits illegal aliens as a voting bloc? (It is maddening they take YOUR money from your family’s mouth and pays another group to keep them in power!)
2. When in November you find your vote negated or the elections stolen (and they will try that- here is my post to that- http://truthandcommonsense.com/2010/03/29/stealing-the-election-democrats-in-ohio-tune-up-for-november/) what will be your reaction? What is the next step when you realize your votes, your voice and your pain means nothing to them?
Right now citizens in America are on two adjoining but separate paths. Sooner or later, something will happen to divide them. Who stays on the path, who jumps across and how the government reacts will set the direction of this nation for two generations.
read the book. I’m telling you. I’ve been on target so far. It has to happen. Humans are humans- period. We are not immune.
Ian Christopher commented:
Zipity, # 34
Yes, you never did explain why i’m “hateful?” Maybe, you have me confused with Bg.
bg commented:
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OT.. ht dcat
this’ll give you a chill up the spine..
The Future
Lyrics
(some times the lyrics differ, some
times they don’t, but not by much)
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Andreas K. commented:
“giving the middle class taxpayers an even break that the wealthy have been getting.”
Good joke Joe.
The middle class will soon be counted as “wealthy” and will get one hell of a tax hike, because it’s the only way to finance Obama’s boondoggle. And sooner or later (more sooner than later) there won’t be a “middle class” anymore.
You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
Are you drunk Ian? New Orleans lies below sea level. Sooner or later it would have gone down. Hurricanes are natural there. Only a matter of time. So who let New Orleans drown? Explain that to me, I’m curious. Maybe it was global warming, eh? Our… ~12PPM CO2 are sooo baaaaaaad. Yes Ian, be a good sheep and repeat after me: CO2 baaaaaaaaaad.
You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
Who? What “people” are you talking about? All I see is terrorist scum getting waterboarded. You want real torture? Look into any communist gulag (China and North Korea are still quite active in that area.)
You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
And who pushed it there? Not Bush. Who started the crisis with forcing banks to give loans and mortgages to everyone? Not Bush.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
Uh… spoken like someone who has no idea. The people in America could see doctors when they were sick before “Obamacare”. What you get with Obamacare is an NHS (which is about to cut funding for public medical care in the UK.)
You didn’t get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
Spoken like a true communist. Oh yes, the evil rich. Just wait till your tax hike comes, Ian. Because it will come. Obama and Biden will eventually run out of “rich” people to tax. Like in Europe.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
Who else should? Politicians? They know nothing. Environmentalists? They’re idiots. You? rofl!
You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
Somehow I’m convinced you would say the same if you had lived in the 40s and US troops were landing in Normandy. But hey, even genocide in Iraq isn’t a good enough reason to go in, right? Straight from Obama’s mouth that one comes.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
I want half of what Joe Biden’s got.
It’s only fair, Joe….
Andreas K. commented:
“It’s about time we get a little tax equity here.”
Yep, everybody pays the same percentange. That’s fair.
But soon it’ll be like in Europe.
Remember, if you live in Austria, you pay 50% taxes once you make 60k Euros per year (which hardly makes you “rich”.) It’s not much better in Germany or the UK. VAT in the UK 17.5%. In Germany 19%. In Austria 20%. And taxes in Sweden have been totally out of hand for years.
Yet, despite all this… the money is not enough because the welfare state, which Joe and Barry want to copy so badly, is a bottomless pit.
The welfare state is a failure and a powder keg that only needs a spark to blow up. because soon one runs out of “rich” to taxe. Then one taxes the “middle class” and they will run out of money eventually. Then what?
Joe’s “fairness” has only one goal: to make the rich poor and to keep the poor poor.
Also, want to bet that Joe and his ilk won’t pay more taxes?
The classic sign of socialism.
All animals are equal. Just some animals are more equal than others.
Tabbysmom commented:
I wonder how much of his money he’s willing to part with, or is he exempt from that (like he is from Obamacare)?
Lenore commented:
Three questions for those who believe in redistribution of wealth or being fair. Do you take ANY deductions, exemptions, tax credits, do you declare anything (including yourself) on your state and federal tax forms? If yes, why? Why are you not willing to pay more taxes to spread the wealth?
TaSS commented:
Fair? So now our government is in the business of being fair?
Let’s start with this….reduce the size of government; cut taxes and stop making people beg to get their own money back.
The government has almost run out of things to tax.
You want to be fair. Let people keep the money they work hard to earn.
Does anyone think that is not fair?
JPL17 commented:
What’s next? After Obama declares martial law and bans membership in the Republican Party, will Biden say, “You call it ‘Dictatorship of the Proletariat.’ I call it ‘leveling the playing field.’”?
Male Silverback commented:
That seems to be the point that all the socialists are making now days; “I think it is ok to pay more to be fair.”
Well that is like a mugger winking at you while he is taking your wallet. He whispers, “its fair” as he lifts it.
No difference between the Dems and a mugger that I can see.
LytnUp commented:
The great thing about “fair” is that it is so arbitrary in nature.
I think it would be “fair” to impose a “fair tax” on politicians who use the word “fair” in rhetoric.
Somehow I feel it would come from the same place as all the other money they spend. That is so “un-fair”.
squeaky commented:
saul alinsky’s view of the middle class and we all know that obama learned well
http://www.progress.org/2003/alinsky3.htm
Militant Conservative commented:
Ian Christopher
March 30th, 2010 | 3:05 pm | #26
I am not waisting my time with your drivil.
you so far in la la land. stay there.
Doug Edelman commented:
Apart from it’s “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul” aspects – which will always draw opposition from Peter and support from Paul – Socialistic Wealth Distribution destroys the American Dream! While Government Mandated Equality of Outcome MIGHT elevate some from poverty to mediocrity… it would do so at the expense of limiting or eliminating the incentive and opportunity to EXCELL beyond mediocrity.
What Communist nation has contributed to the betterment of the human condition thru innovation in science, medicine, art, literature, etc (outside of that which was state-sponsored for military application)? Is the American “rugged individualist” spirit so dead that we will accept universal mediocrity?
I propose that the conservative movement take up a new motto: “Liberty, Opportunity, Individualism!”
Hey – that’s pretty good. I think I’ll publish that!
Chisum commented:
Is the Value Added Tax coming?
Obama set out to be a consequential president, one on the order of Ronald Reagan. With the VAT, Obama’s triumph will be complete. He will have succeeded in reversing Reaganism. Liberals have long complained that Reagan’s strategy was to starve the (governmental) beast in order to shrink it: First, cut taxes; then, ultimately, you have to reduce government spending.
Obama’s strategy is exactly the opposite: Expand the beast, and then feed it. Spend first — which then forces taxation. Now that, with the institution of universal health care, we are becoming the full entitlement state, the beast will have to be fed.
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/03/30/is-the-value-added-tax-coming.php
Chisum commented:
Ian Christopher,
This is for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ee3xemyQjI&feature=player_embedded
Bill M commented:
Isn’t this the same stingy hypocrite that averaged about a dollar a day in charitable giving over the past 10 yeras? Why is it that these cheap, corrupt, idiot politicians can be so cavalier with OUR money, but never let go of their own?
Mike commented:
Why do reporters ignore the question needed to be asked that when the pundit mentions “Being Fair” “If Congress does not have to pay federal taxes how is that FAIR to the rest of us American Tax Payers”
RebeccaH commented:
Fair, huh? Then how come Joe and Congress aren’t including themselves in this big, fat “being fair” scheme?
firewifem commented:
When my students say, “That’s not fair!” I reply, “Life isn’t fair. If it were, you would all look the same, have the same hair, same athletic ability (or not), same amount of money, same lunch every day, etc.”
Fair is having the chance to get what you need not everyone having the same. That just lowers the bar for all.
burt commented:
Mr. Christopher,
When your little tin God bankrupts the country, the people who have any health care will be few indeed! You are not good. You are evil.
bg commented:
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religious & educational institutions are tax exempt, no??
and not only why are places like these tax exempt,
but why are they allowed to exist here in the US??
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bg commented:
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Ian Christopher @ 10:12 pm #49
i’ve no love for Obama, and i believe he is evil, but i also suspect his life may be in danger due to the recent rise in the level of violence, whether staged or enraged..
however, what worries me the most is not only the sudden “assassination” rhetoric coming from the left, but what’s most disturbing is the deja vu rants spewing from this man, who admitted to being complicit in the assassination of Malcolm X, mouth..
Farrakhan exposed: Who really assassinated Malcolm X
Warning from Louis Farrakhan
“For 12 long years I lived within the narrow-minded confines of the ‘straightjacket world’ created by my strong belief that Elijah Muhammad was a messenger direct from God Himself, and my faith in what I now see to be a pseudo-religious philosophy that he preaches…. I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did.”
Malcolm X
btw.. that was OBAMA’S SECURITY that he insists on employing
aside from secret service who “slipped up”.. aah, i smell a set up,
opportunist as it may be, better late than never heh Farrakhan..
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Don Rodrigo commented:
Gee…it looks like for Joe, “..math is hard”
Zippity: what do you expect from a guy with doll-hair implants?
Don Rodrigo commented:
One of the most aggravating things about the tax-hike on people making $250K-plus (which, by the way, would be the combined income for marrieds! Now we have TWO marriage penalties!) is that a majority of people making that kind of money have spent many years working hard before they even reached that level. So, it’s not like they’re folks who’ve enjoyed this kind of income most of their adult lives — rather, they are mostly people who’ve reached late middle age and their peak earning years. Many will have made $250K or more for only a handful of years before old age sets in.
How is it right to penalize them, especially considering the road they travelled to get to where they are? How is it right to sock them with the same tax rate as someone making 100 times as much?
Susan Harms commented:
Can I have Bidens $700K beach house? It would only be fair. I dont have a beach house.