Perhaps this country would be much more productive and wealthy if we had regressive taxes. Then everyone would be motivated to improve themselves so they could have jobs where they earn more money so they pay less taxes.
In his usual stock speech yesterday (watched the whole thing) Biden said people like Trump look down on him because his (Biden's) house isn't as nice. Other class warfare stuff too. Then he said "I give you my word as a Biden, if you make less than $400,000 you’re not going to see a penny of your taxes go up, not a penny"
Like many of his other lies he leaves stuff out. He is not mentioning the other taxes that will go up like self employment tax. He's promised that. He doesn't care that many small businesses aren't able to pull off his tax trick he used to shelter his book and speech income and turn it into non-income.
A guy I know, not a friend, but I talk to, a reasonable union guy, tried to convince me a few weeks ago that Biden was not a socialist. There was desperation in his voice. I was so shocked I didn't know what to say at first. I pointed out the Biden New Green Deal would raise costs for everyone, that he chose a leftist running mate, that he's not really in charge of things.
Biden yelling angrily for unity at a mostly black gathering is not fooling anyone, not even those people who are also just using him. But the medis is doing their best to keep Biden out of the cameras.