Agreed. That comment was really dumb. I'm sure Joe would agree. But please look at the transcript. This was at the very end of a complicated answer at the buzzer. Not all full court buzzer shots swish.
"President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt.
Agreed. That comment was really dumb. I'm sure Joe would agree. But please look at the transcript. This was at the very end of a complicated answer at the buzzer. Not all full court buzzer shots swish.
"President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt.
BIDEN: He had the largest national debt of any president four-year period, number one.
Number two, he got $2 trillion tax cut, benefited the very wealthy.
What I’m going to do is fix the taxes.
For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America – I mean, billionaires in America. And what’s happening? They’re in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 percent in taxes. If they just paid 24 percent or 25 percent, either one of those numbers, they’d raised $500 million – billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period.
We’d be able to right – wipe out his debt. We’d be able to help make sure that – all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
Look, if – we finally beat Medicare."
I concede this is poorly worded. But I disagree if this is portrayed as proof of dementia or mental decline. Joe made some important points. Joe wants billionaires to pay taxes at a lower tax rate than school teachers in order to address the national debt. I'm for Joe. I did not quote it but this was a response to a truly demented rant from Trump.
Agreed. That comment was really dumb. I'm sure Joe would agree. But please look at the transcript. This was at the very end of a complicated answer at the buzzer. Not all full court buzzer shots swish.
"President Biden, I want to give you an opportunity to respond to this question about the national debt.
BIDEN: He had the largest national debt of any president four-year period, number one.
Number two, he got $2 trillion tax cut, benefited the very wealthy.
What I’m going to do is fix the taxes.
For example, we have a thousand trillionaires in America – I mean, billionaires in America. And what’s happening? They’re in a situation where they, in fact, pay 8.2 percent in taxes. If they just paid 24 percent or 25 percent, either one of those numbers, they’d raised $500 million – billion dollars, I should say, in a 10-year period.
We’d be able to right – wipe out his debt. We’d be able to help make sure that – all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our healthcare system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the COVID – excuse me, with dealing with everything we have to do with.
Look, if – we finally beat Medicare."
I concede this is poorly worded. But I disagree if this is portrayed as proof of dementia or mental decline. Joe made some important points. Joe wants billionaires to pay taxes at a lower tax rate than school teachers in order to address the national debt. I'm for Joe. I did not quote it but this was a response to a truly demented rant from Trump.