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One thing Dems and Reps can agree on, there is equal foot in mouth disease going around. 

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Joe Biden Mocks Mitt Romney For Using Same Definition Of Middle Class As Democrats

Posted: 09/17/2012 6:23 pm Updated: 09/18/2012 12:13 am

Vice President Joe Biden mocked Mitt Romney for thinking the middle class extends to those making $250,000, but Democrats also use that definition.

 

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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is so out of touch with regular Americans that he thinks the middle class extends to people making up to $250,000.

But Biden apparently forgot that that's the same benchmark that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats regularly use when talking about extending the Bush-era tax cuts for the middle class.

During a campaign event in Burlington, Iowa, Biden mocked Romney for saying Obama is out of touch with average Americans when Romney is the one with Swiss bank accounts and millions of dollars tucked away in the Cayman Islands.

"He thinks the middle class is $200,000 to $250,000. Whoa! Whoa!" Biden said to cheers. "Don't you all wish you were in that middle class? Whoa!"

In an interview last week on ABC's "Good Morning America," Romney said he would define "middle-income" as between $200,000 to $250,000 a year and less.

"He's totally out of touch with the reality of what ordinary Americans deal with every day," Biden said about Romney. "He does not get it. He does not understand."

But for months, Obama has been urging Congress to extend the "middle-class" Bush-era tax cuts on the first $250,000 of people's income.

"Pass a bill extending the tax cuts for the middle class, I will sign it tomorrow," Obama said in July. "I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton."

Congressional Democrats, too, have consistently used the $250,000 threshold when talking about middle-class cuts. In July, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) hailed Senate passage of a bill extending the Bush-era tax cuts at that level. And House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) conceded in August that she was bluffing when she briefly said the limit should be bumped up from $250,000 to $1 million. It should stay at $250,000, she said.

UPDATE: 8:02 p.m. -- An Obama campaign aide responded by reiterating that Romney's policies are aimed at helping the wealthy.

"As the vice president made clear in his remarks today, Mitt Romney?s proposals are out-of-touch -- he would voucherize Medicare, and pay for new tax cuts for the wealthy by hiking them on the middle class. While President Obama is fighting for middle-class families and has cut their taxes every year he?s been in office, nonpartisan studies have made clear that Mitt Romney's tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires come from only one place -- the pockets of middle-class families. That's the clear choice in this election," the aide said in a statement.

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SookieFrackhouse68

Biden's gaffes are funny.

BUT I do agree that someone making 250k shouldn't be charged the same taxes as those making millions, KWIM? 250k is a lovely annual income, don't get me wrong. I just don't think it is "rich." Upper, upper, UPPER middle class, IMO.

CoffeeBeen

Oh, Joe!

Does anyone know democrats lower limit for their definition of middle class?  I'm wondering because that's the part that really bugs me.

ohioloveyou

CoffeeBeen:

Oh, Joe!

Does anyone know democrats lower limit for their definition of middle class?  I'm wondering because that's the part that really bugs me.

This!  No one discusses what we're considering under middle class.  Unless it's the poverty line...but I've seen studies that it's almost impossible to actually live on the income that the govt. considers poverty-level.  

Kitiara5512

It was the part where the way Romney phrased it made it sound like 200k was the low end of middle class. The upper end of middle class has been noted as being around that much or 250k for several years I believe.

GeraldoRivera

Kitiara5512:

It was the part where the way Romney phrased it made it sound like 200k was the low end of middle class. The upper end of middle class has been noted as being around that much or 250k for several years I believe.

Exactly. 

 

Of course, never mind that making $250k a year puts you in the top 1.5% of all households in the United States. Making $200k puts you in the top 3%. Hardly the "middle."