Joe Biden’s answer to the question posed to him about how he would combat income inequality in America sums up the basis of the Democrat Party platform.
In this clip from the Poor People’s Campaign Presidential Forum hosted by Trinity Washington University, Biden was asked what he would do about the “pressing problem of income inequality.”
When asked the same question just seven years ago, his answer was far different.
During the Vice Presidential Debate 0f 2012, Biden was asked, “If your ticket is elected, who will pay more in taxes? Who will pay less?” He replied, “The middle class will pay less … No one making less than $250,000 under Obama’s plan will see one penny of their tax raised. And 95% percent of the people making less than $150,000 will get a tax break.”
Last week, Americans for Tax Reform reported that deleting the tax cuts championed by President Trump “would cost a single parent $1,300 more in taxes each year.”
Repealing the Trump-led tax cuts of 2017 would cut the child tax credit and standard tax deduction in half, and put an end to the 20 percent small business deduction. The U.S. would once again have the highest corporate tax in the developed world.
Watch the video and learn how Biden finished his sentence — “First thing I would do as president is …”
