Biden stands his ground during an interview with Katie Couric, after Palin swipes him for suggesting that it's a patriotic duty for folks making over $250k a year to pay more in taxes:
Katie: "Your vice presidential rival, Governor Palin, said "To the rest of America, that's not patriotism. Raising taxes is about killing jobs and hurting small businesses and making things worse."
Biden: "How many small businessmen are making one million, four hundred thousand--average in the top 1 percent. Give me a break. I remind my friend, John McCain, what he said--when Bush called for war and tax cuts--he said, it was immoral, immoral, to take a nation to war and not have anybody pay for it. I am so sick and tired of this phoniness. The truth of the matter is that we are in trouble. And the people who do not need a new tax cut should be willing, as patriotic Americans, to understand the way to get this economy back up on their feet is to give middle class taxpayers a break. We take the tax cut they're getting and we give it to the middle class."
TPR linked to a cartoon short from WWII on the patriotism of taxpayers- absolutely worth watching for the message as well as the amazing art direction in the second half:
Imagine if the Bush administration had made a pitch like that after September 11th- that we were all in it together, and were going to all pitch in to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban... instead of suggesting that our patriotic duty was to go shopping.
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