Keep in mind, two days after this tweet, that President Biden’s son, who charges up to $500,000 per painting, admitted to not paying any taxes on taxable income in excess of $1,500,000 annually in calendar years 2017 and 2018.
It’s about time the super-wealthy start paying their fair share.
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 18, 2023
Biden apparently intends to run for reelection on that theme of fairness: At the recent rally in Philadelphia, Biden bellowed, “Look, we’ve got a better answer. It’s time for everyone — I mean everyone, no matter how rich or powerful they are — to start paying their fair share.”
I’m old enough to remember June 2019, when Biden told a room of affluent New York donors, “what I’ve found is rich people are just as patriotic as poor people. Not a joke. I mean, we may not want to demonize anybody who has made money.”
Every taxpayer in America can say to the president, “I’ve paid a lot more than your son paid on his millions a few years ago.”