"Biden renews vow to repeal tax cuts for rich"

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Biden renews vow to repeal tax cuts for rich
By Greg Sargent

Joe Biden, in a new interview, vows that the Obama administration will make good on its promise to cut the budget, but crucially, he pairs it with a renewed push to end tax cuts for the rich:

Vice President Joe Biden is promising "significant cuts" to the federal budget and a renewed push to end tax cuts for the rich, all while encouraging unemployed Americans to "hang in there" as they struggle to get by and find jobs.

"The president laid out significant cuts to deal with the long-term debt," Biden said in an interview with Yahoo News released Friday. "We are going to once again attempt to repeal the unnecessary $700 billion tax cut for people who make the top 2 percent."

It's good enough on its own to hear Biden renewing this promise. But the real key here is that he's keeping the issue alive in the context of the current discussion about budget cuts and the deficit. As Jed Lewison noted the other day, the conversation about fiscal discipline too often gets framed solely around the narrow question of whether to cut or not to cut, when there are other deficit-reduction options available.

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