The Patriot

Continuing on this theme of taxation and income redistribution, I want to focus on a statement that was made by Barry's VP pick, Joe Biden. First of all, Biden likes to refer to his working class roots and he considers himself a "lunch bucket Democrat". This couldn't be farther from the truth. His father was a car salesman and later a mid-level exec. His grandfather was a state senator in Pennsylvania. He graduated from the prestigious Archmere Academy in Delaware and then from the University of Delaware and Syracuse University law School. So spare me the cliched pulled myself up by the bootstraps storyline.

Back to my point. This morning on Good Morning America, Lunch Bucket Joe said that paying more taxes was the patriotic thing for wealthy Americans to do. He also said specifically, "We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people".

There you have it. It doesn't get much more succinct than that. They are going to take money. In other words, it is un-patriotic to keep that money you worked hard to earn and do with it as you please. We, meaning Barry and Joe, will decide what to do with that money.

Now, Joe has been known to stick his foot in his mouth from time to time, so there will be some serious spinning on this statement to deny that it represents a redistribution of income. Don't buy it. They mean what they say and say what they mean.