"Biden renews vow to repeal tax cuts for rich"

[Clio the Leo]

Biden renews vow to repeal tax cuts for rich
By Greg Sargent

Joe Biden, in a new interview, vows that the Obama administration will make good on its promise to cut the budget, but crucially, he pairs it with a renewed push to end tax cuts for the rich:

Vice President Joe Biden is promising "significant cuts" to the federal budget and a renewed push to end tax cuts for the rich, all while encouraging unemployed Americans to "hang in there" as they struggle to get by and find jobs.

"The president laid out significant cuts to deal with the long-term debt," Biden said in an interview with Yahoo News released Friday. "We are going to once again attempt to repeal the unnecessary $700 billion tax cut for people who make the top 2 percent."

It's good enough on its own to hear Biden renewing this promise. But the real key here is that he's keeping the issue alive in the context of the current discussion about budget cuts and the deficit. As Jed Lewison noted the other day, the conversation about fiscal discipline too often gets framed solely around the narrow question of whether to cut or not to cut, when there are other deficit-reduction options available.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plum-line/2011/01/joe_biden_renews_focus_on_tax.html

[xchrom]

1. the time to do that is gone. -- it's bitter backwash now. nt

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[emulatorloo]

9. SELFDELETE

[ClassWarrior]

24. Wow, is that a Martin Luther King Jr. quote?

:eyes:

Sometimes you need to kick that cat multiple times before it moves.

NGU.

[inna]

2. yeah, i believe him, too

[Autumn]

3. I don't think it's going to happen.

It's an empty promise. :shrug: They are going to fight it tooth and nail, and I seriously doubt Biden or Obama are going to fight it.

[golddigger]

4. Yeah right.

[jeanpalmer]

5. That's what he says

while he does the opposite. Why does he even bother saying it.

[bluerum]

6. The real issue is how to do that now that congress is unlikely to go along.

[hulka38]

7. Up yours Joe.

[golfguru]

10. How does Biden propose to overcome GOP majority in House?

[dsc]

15. it sounds like he is making it a swap

we won't veto cuts if you agree to repeal the tax cut, which seems like it could be the makings of a deal.

[Cali_Democrat]

11. Too late dude

The time to repeal was right now 2 years before the next election. Now people will not take your word for it and the deficit will be looming large thanks to the tax cuts for the wealthy.

You blew it.

[Enthusiast]

12. Too late now!

The time for this argument has passed.

[mmonk]

13. That chance was squandered.

[ClassWarrior]

25. Is that Gandhi's strategy?

Give up at the first defeat?

:eyes:

NGU.

[indepat]

14. Should be no problem there Mr. VP: The Republican majority in the House will work through the night

drafting legislation for the immediate repeal of tax cuts for the wealthy. You can bank on it. :)

[Jefferson23]

16. Insulting remarks. n/t

[Raine]

17. Yeah, like that's going to happen

NOT! :mad:

[taught_me_patience]

18. A day late

and a buck short...

[ProSense]

19. It's never too late

to right a wrong. Why would anyone not want to see this happen?

[great white snark]

20. Agreed. This will be a major election issue. nt

[Dawgs]

21. Fool me once, shame on you...

:cry:

[Juche]

22. They said that in 2008

They couldn't get it done with 59 senators and a house supermajority. I don't see how they'd do it now.

[GrantDem]

23. Believe it when it happens…

And then I will still be skeptical and looking for the catch.

[ClassWarrior]

26. Making it happen starts with keeping it at the forefront of dialogue.

I give Joe credit for at least that much.

NGU.

[Fuddnik]

27. Yeah right.

Fool me once, shame on you.

Fool me twice, uh, er, we don't get fooled again.

[ellie]

28. Er, okay.

[Enrique]

29. why not promise to veto its extension?

obvious answer, because you have absolutely no intention of doing that.