Joe Biden, are these people patriotic?

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Joe Biden said last year that "paying taxes is patriotic."

If that's so, Mr. Vice President, then tell us, are these individuals patriots?

Tom Daschle

Nancy Killefer

Tim Geithner

Caroline Kennedy

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You forgot one

Charlie Rangel

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Maybe it would be easier if we just listed those in the zero administration who do pay their taxes.

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Al Franken

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Maybe it would be easier if we just listed those in the zero administration who do pay their taxes.

LOL!

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Mr. Hilda Solis

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Two

Solis’ husband

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a wabid tax cheat

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Tax Cheat Franken is behind that bear all the way...

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Jonah must have been reading my mind:


Tax cheats embraced by Barack Obama

By Jonah Goldberg

During the presidential campaign, Joe Biden insisted that paying taxes is a patriotic duty. No, scratch that. He said that supporting a tax hike was the American thing to do. “It’s time to be patriotic,” he told America’s putative tax slackers. When asked whether he might be questioning the patriotism of people who don’t want higher taxes, Biden took things to the next rhetorical level. Forget patriotism, said Joe, paying higher taxes is a religious obligation to help your fellow man.

So the senator who gave an average of $369 a year to charity over the previous decade fulfills a religious obligation by cutting a tax check to Uncle Sam - a check he’s required to cut by law.

It’s always perilous to take Biden’s statements too seriously, but it does seem eminently fair to say that his comments reflect a common, though perhaps not universal, attitude among Democrats. “Taxes are what you pay to be an American” - like “membership fees,” says Democratic language guru George Lakoff.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/