#STOPTHETAXHIKE: Biden Admits Middle Class Has ‘Been Buried the Last Four Years’ Under Dems’ Policies

October 3, 2012

FYI, a similar version of this release below went out to the following districts: Shelley Adler (NJ-03), Ron Barber (AZ-08), Tim Bishop (NY-01), Bruce Braley (IA-01), Cheri Bustos (IL-17), Lois Capps (CA-24), Andrei Cherny (AZ-09), David Cicilline (RI-01), John Delaney (MD-06), Val Demings (FL-10), Tammy Duckworth (IL-08), Bill Foster (IL-11), Lois Frankel (FL-22), John Garamendi (CA-03), David Gill (IL-13), Alan Grayson (FL-09), Pam Gulleson (ND-AL), Brian Higgins (NY-26), Jim Himes (CT-04), Kathy Hochul (NY-27), Steven Horsford (NV-04), Steve Israel (NY-03), Ann Kirkpatrick (AZ-01), Pat Kreitlow (WI-07), Ann McLane Kuster (NH-02), Rick Larsen (WA-02), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Carolyn McCarthy (NY-04), Gary McDowell (MI-01), Mike Michaud (ME-02), Joe Miklosi (CO-06), Mark Murphy (NY-11), Patrick Murphy (FL-18), John Oceguera (NV-03), Sal Pace (CO-03), Bill Pascrell (NJ-09), Ed Perlmutter (CO-07), Nick Rahall (WV-03), David Schapira (AZ-09), Brad Schneider (IL-10), Brandon Shaffer (CO-04), Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01), Kyrsten Sinema (AZ-09), Louise Slaughter (NY-25), Betty Sutton (OH-16), Syed Taj (MI-11), John Tierney (MA-06), Niki Tsongas (MA-03), Christie Vilsack (IA-04), Jamie Wall (WI-08), Charlie Wilson (OH-06)

Biden Admits Middle Class Has ‘Been Buried the Last Four Years’ Under Rahall’s Policies

West Virginia Democrat Watches His Big-Government Policies Make a Bad Economy Worse as He Refuses to #Stopthetaxhike

WASHINGTON — Nick Rahall and his party in the House will have to face the music after Vice President Joe Biden admitted at a campaign rally yesterday that the middle class has ‘been buried the last four years.’ Thanks to Rahall’s efforts to crush small business owners and families with more taxes, the West Virginia economy continues to be plagued with anemic economic growth and a bleak outlook for the future (Roll Call #8, 8/1/2012).

“The cat’s out of the bag now that even the vice president conceded that his party’s own policies have buried the middle class,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “Biden’s right, and now is no time for Washington Democrats like Nick Rahall to pursue job-killing tax hikes for West Virginia families and job creators.”

Thanks to Nick Rahall’s vote, the average West Virginia families’ tax increase will be $1,929 in 2013. (“The Effects of Taxmadeggon,” The Heritage Foundation, 6/2012)

Vice President Biden said that the middle class has been ‘buried’ during Obama’s tenure:

“’This is deadly earnest. How they can justify … raising taxes on the middle class that has been buried the last four years?’ [said Biden].” (Patricia Zengerle, “Biden: U.S. Middle Class ‘Buried the Last Four Years,’” Reuters, 10/2/2012)

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