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Joe Biden: “My dad used to have an expression -- don't tell me what you value; show me your budget. And the budget we have here is…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2007
My dad used to have an expression -- don't tell me what you value; show me your budget. And the budget we have here is we all dance around it. We need more revenue to be able to pay for the things the governor and everybody else talks about. And there's only one way to do it. You either raise taxes or take tax cuts away from people who don't need them. I would take them away from people who don't need them.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware

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Biden discussed the need for budgetary reform and tax policy.

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