• Vice President Biden at National Council of La Raza

    By Adrian Saenz, National Latino Vote Director on July 11, 2012

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    Vice President Joe Biden spoke before the National Council of La Raza yesterday afternoon – check out what he had to say about the choice voters face in this election:

    "This is a man whose idea of tax reform is to maintain the Bush tax cut for the very wealthy, which costs $1 trillion, 55% of which goes to just 120,000 households in America, households of an average income of $8.4 million.

    "And on top of that, an additional $1.6 trillion tax cut to people with incomes in excess of a million dollars, which is a $250,000 per year tax cut for the average millionaire.

    "A budget that strikes 200,000 students from Head Start, 19 million poor off of Medicaid, as many as eight million cut from supplemental nutrition assistance. Child nutrition, school lunch program, child care, early education...

    “The impact on the Hispanic community would be devastating—and the effects would last a generation.”

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