“It is high time for the super-rich to start paying their fair share”: campaigning for his re-election in 2024, Joe Biden praised Saturday in the key state of Pennsylvania his investments in infrastructure and advanced technologies, and called for greater taxation of big business and billionaires.
In the Philadelphia conference center, in front of an audience made up of trade unionists, the American president launched to cheers that he was convinced that “this country is about to take off”.
“The investments we’ve made over the past three years have the power to transform this country in the next five decades,” he said, referring to the CHIPS and Science Act, a law that provides nearly $53 billion. dollars for production and research in the electronic chip sector, and the “Inflation Reduction Act”, a pharaonic plan for investment in green energy.
If the Republicans win in 2024, they “will go after your jobs” by reversing his reforms, he argued.
Courting the vote of the working classes, he also attacked the richest.
“I don’t mind that they are billionaires. They just have to pay their fair share! he exclaimed. “Simply put: it’s time for big business and the very wealthy to start paying their fair share.”
The AFL-CIO trade union confederation, which sponsored this rally, officially gave it its support for 2024 on Friday.
Joe Biden, 80, announced his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election at the end of April, promising to restore its “dignity” to working-class America, which his rival Donald Trump was able to seduce in part.