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| 2008-10-29 |
| Is Joe Biden the foot-in-mouth candidate - or is he the Obama campaign's designated teller of inconvenient truths? First, the Democratic veep hopeful declared that America's enemies will generate "an international crisis, to test the mettle of" a President Obama. Scary - but likely true. And yesterday Biden let slip that he and Obama apparently have a sliding scale to determine who's "super-rich." Obama, after all, has been promising a tax cut for the "middle class" - those making $200,000 a year or less. I thought it was $250,000? Biden yesterday lowered that bar. He does that every time he opens his mouth. "What we're saying," he told a Pennsylvania TV interviewer, "is that [our] tax break doesn't need to go to people making . . . $1.4 million. It should go to [people] making under $150,000 a year." I thought it was $200,000? Oops. That's a 25 percent downward redefinition of "middle class." Just trying to "level the playing field", right, boys? An Obama mouthpiece quickly dismissed the discrepancy as just another one of Joe the Senator's gaffes. Oh, that Joe... But consider: The campaign has a new TV commercial out declaring that families - not individuals - earning $200,000 or less would qualify for a tax cut. Two incomes - not one. So that would make it a $100,000? And, as most middle-class wage-earners know, that's a huge difference. Just "spreading the wealth around". Y'all be cool... As Sen. John McCain said yesterday: "At this rate, it won't be long before Sen. Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just $42,000 should get a tax increase." What, you think that wasn't the plan all along? We wouldn't be surprised - what with leading congressional Democrats like Rep. Barney Frank licking their chops at the chance to raise taxes. "We'll have to raise taxes, ultimately," Frank declared over the weekend. Don't say you weren't warned. ...like we didn't know? |
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