Joe Biden: Taxes not just a patriotic duty — but also a religious experience
(By Ed Morrissey, Hot Air) - Joe Biden decided to double down on his ridiculous statement from this morning that patriotic people wouldn’t complain about paying higher taxes. Instead of simply shrugging it off or backing away from the statment, as almost anyone else would have done, Biden instead justified higher taxes by making it a duty — as a Catholic:
Fired up in a room full of union members, Joe Biden angrily defended both his ticket’s tax plan and his own claim that tax hikes for the rich are patriotic, while urging fellow Democrats to stand their ground on what he said was a values debate.
Biden, speaking to members of the Laborers International Union of North America, began by saying that there is “no disagreement” between John McCain and Barack Obama on the need for tax cuts. The real issue, he said, is who gets them.
“Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,” he said. “Now it’d be different if you could make the case to me that by giving this tax cut to the very wealthy, everybody else was going to be better off. We saw what happened the last eight years when we gave that tax cut.”
posted by BP News Bureau | 8:20 PM
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The accuracy of Biden's statement aside (the fact is, it is a Christian thing to help the less fortunate ... I question whether that's the government's job however), I applaud him in have the testosterone to actually allow his religious convictions influence his public policy.
The fact is, either he needs to quit claiming Christianity or start taking a consistent stand based on his so-called "strong" religious belief system. If one's religion can't impact how they view the world then that religion isn't worth having and becomes nothing more than a political plank or a cultural whim.
Now, this sort of claim does call into question his authenticity because it's in direct contradiction to his claim on Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press. There he made it clear that he wasn't going to impose his religious beliefs about killing unborn babies onto women who disagree with him on that topic. He didn't think it was the governement's role to impose such religious beliefs onto people.
Seems to me to be a little hypocritical to not impose religious beliefs about protecting innocent life while gleefully imposing the Bible-based belief in your right to pillage the rich on behalf of the poor.
Which is it Mr. Biden? Do your religious beliefs influence your worldview or not? Or is it really about pandering to whomever happens to be listening and using God's Word as a justification for whatever you happen to believe at the time?
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