Correction, Please!
Middle-class Gains Threatened by Profligate Spenders, Overtaxing
Item: The Des Moines Register for January 15 carried a transcript of the previous night’s debate among Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa. Former Vice President Joe Biden, in his usual muddled fashion, claimed that he couldn’t wait to face off against Donald Trump. He said, obliquely: “Where I come from, the neighbors I come from, they’re in real trouble, working-class people and middle-class people.”
He continued: “When the middle class does well, the working class has a way up and the wealthy do well. But what’s happening now? They’re being clobbered. They’re being killed.” Biden insisted that “the wealthy are the only ones doing well.”
Item: Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, during the same debate, promised that her (extremely expensive) version of “Medicare for All” would not raise the taxes of the middle class. “My approach to this,” she said, “is that we have to get as much help to as many people as quickly as possible. I have worked out a plan where we can do that by not raising taxes on middle class families by one thin dime.”
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