Biden Proposing Largest Tax Hike in History
By KYLE SMITH
July 9, 2020 11:27 AM
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a campaign event at a community center in Darby, Pa., June 17, 2020. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Joe Biden’s appeal to voters seems to rest on three factors: One, he’d restore normalcy to the Oval Office and act like a grownup; two, he’s a political moderate; and three (related to the other two), people think the country is generally going off the rails and want to punish everyone they consider responsible for said derailment.
By November, Biden will still be Biden — a guy Americans know and more or less trust, at least by today’s standards, when politicians are unpopular. By fall, though, the country may or may not still seem like it’s going off the rails. If it doesn’t, the focus will return to Biden’s reputation for moderation. How well will that hold up?
Since wrapping up the Democratic Party nomination in March, Biden has done the opposite of what you’d think and resisted any urge to tack back toward the center on economic matters. A CNBC reporter, Robert Frank, looked into Biden’s tax hikes and noted that they dwarf Hillary Clinton’s. He put the total tax cost of Clinton’s proposals at $1.5 trillion; Biden’s, at $4 trillion. (The details are here.) Biden’s “unity task force” of economic advisers and environmental activists was staffed not to appeal to the center but to placate supporters of Bernie Sanders by including two Sanders aides and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Biden is now talking about using the COVID-19 crisis as an opportunity to “rewrite the economy,” recalling Rahm Emanuel’s wish to “never let a crisis go to waste.”
NBC News reports that Biden’s advisory team and the Democratic Party are pushing for “far more aggressive actions on multiple fronts than many were considering at the start of the campaign.” Ocasio-Cortez polls badly. It would be unwise for Biden to allow himself to be associated with her brand of economic and environmentalist thinking. A Biden who carefully refused to commit himself to any kind of radical economic program but focused solely on offering a change of leadership style would be an attractive candidate. Instead, Biden has been saying that recent events have caused the U.S. to “need some revolutionary institutional changes.” He has praised his task force for offering a “bold, transformative platform for our party and for our country.” He said in a tweet that “we won’t just rebuild this nation — we’ll transform it.”
Americans want relief from all the drama, not for the uncertainty and turmoil to take on a different shape.
Poster Comment:
They just want more blood. How much can you give before you are dead?
#1: Esso To: BTP Holdings (#0)
ANTIFA/BLM don't do taxes!
Esso posted on 2020-07-10 17:11:53 Reply Private Reply
#2: Cynicom To: BTP Holdings (#0)
That is understandable.
Forty million black voters need to be taken care of.Blacks have furnished the muscle, time for Biden to repay them.
Cynicom posted on 2020-07-10 17:14:11 Reply Private Reply
#3: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#1)
What work are they doing? Certainly looting and pillaging is not gainful employment. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-10 17:18:22 Reply Private Reply
#4: Esso To: BTP Holdings, 4um, Cynicom (#3)
No, but they were damned good at it, AND it's tax-free!
The bonus plan.
Esso posted on 2020-07-10 17:25:13 Reply Private Reply
#5: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#4)
Wal Mart here loses hundreds of dollars a month to shoplifters.
Looting is not like shoplifting since it occurs on a mass basis. The losses could be in the thousands or tens of thousands. :-/
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-10 17:58:16 Reply Private Reply
#6: Esso To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#5)
You're an optimist, B.
Esso posted on 2020-07-10 17:59:48 Reply Private Reply
#7: BTP Holdings To: Esso (#6)
When I work for State of Illinois they had a saying, "Admit nothing and deny everything." ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-10 18:04:55 Reply Private Reply
#8: Esso To: BTP Holdings, 4um (#7)
EXAMPLE:
Esso posted on 2020-07-10 18:09:08 Reply Private Reply
#9: Esso To: All (#8)
Wanna come over and play?
(Edit) I told y'all, my computer reads my mind now.
Esso posted on 2020-07-10 18:22:21 Reply Private Reply
#10: Lod To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Stop there.
Lod posted on 2020-07-10 18:24:50 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-07-10 18:40:15 Reply Private Reply
#12: Esso To: Lod, 4um (#10)
Nah, I'm on a roll, I ain't stoppin' for shit!
Bullshit, Trump finally brought back some dignity and sanity to the presidency, the first since Reagan.
Bullshit, he's suffering from dementia and is to the left of Stalin.
It is, thanks to the dem/commies.
Dems/commies, again. Any clarification needed?
Esso posted on 2020-07-10 18:40:18 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2020-07-10 18:43:48 Reply Private Reply
#14: Lod To: Esso, all (#11)
Lod posted on 2020-07-10 18:57:31 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-07-10 19:05:45 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2020-07-10 19:08:21 Reply Private Reply
#17: BTP Holdings To: Lod (#14)
When he was late I put the word out on him.
Someone told me they saw him going into Food & Liquors store on main drag. So I drove over there and caught him coming out front door.
I stepped out of the truck and hollered at him, "Come out here!" on traffic side of truck.
I said to him, "So where is my money?" He starts to give me a line of BS. So I grab him by his shirt and say, "If you don't get my money to me FAST, (I look left and there is a car coming.) you might have an accident."
I pushed him back. He rocked back on his heels. I pulled him back just before the car hit him. It was so close the car stopped.
His eyes got big around and he screamed at me, "YOU'RE ON DRUGS! YOU GOTTA BE ON DRUGS!"
I had my cash the next day.
I told that story on The Chicago Outfit Facebook page. One of those guys said, "You would have made a good enforcer."
I told this story to the priest at the Catholic church. He thought I meant Dirty Harry.
I told him, "No. These guys were gangsters." ROTFLOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-10 19:34:20 Reply Private Reply
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Lod posted on 2020-07-10 19:40:35 Reply Private Reply
#19: Cynicom To: Esso (#12)
Cynicom posted on 2020-07-10 19:56:44 Reply Private Reply
#20: Bill D Berger To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Sounds like something Marx would say.
Bill D Berger posted on 2020-07-10 19:58:01 Reply Private Reply
#21: Lod To: BTP Holdings, Esso, all (#17)
Lod posted on 2020-07-10 20:38:44 Reply Private Reply
#22: BTP Holdings To: Bill D Berger (#20)
When they were burning books in Nazi Germany, they specifically burned those by Karl Marx. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-11 08:23:00 Reply Private Reply
#23: BTP Holdings To: Lod (#21)
It's been a long time since I've watched Rambo.
One time when working a concert I had to beat the crap out of a couple of assholes.
My boss who had been in 'Nam said, "Yeah, Tex got some." LOL
BTP Holdings posted on 2020-07-11 08:45:19 Reply Private Reply