Opinion

Biden ‘fact-checks’ Obama

‘Honest” Joe Biden strikes again.

On Thursday, Biden told an Iowa crowd: “On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we’re gonna ask — yes — we’re gonna ask the wealthy to pay more . . .

“You know the phrase they always use? Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars. Guess what? Yes we do.”

Now, the admission that Team Obama is looking to hike taxes a trillion bucks is nothing if not, well, honest.

Biden tried to “clarify” himself, but his words may be the truest statement of Democratic tax policy since Walter Mondale famously declared in his 1984 acceptance speech that he’d raise taxes.

This followed Biden’s Tuesday comment in North Carolina that “the middle class . . . has been buried the last four years.” Yes, that would be the four years of the Obama-Biden administration, though Biden also tried to backtrack there — referring to the “policies of Romney and Ryan” being responsible for the burial.

In fact, over the last four years the middle class has been buried:

* In government spending that this administration has no plan to restrain.

* By a mounting national debt that’s $16 trillion and rising.

* By mountains of regulations — including ObamaCare — that stifle job growth.

Now, it appears, the middle class is to be buried in a trillion-dollar tax hike aimed at “the wealthy” — but that will inevitably trickle down to those not so well off.

Joe Biden’s recurring accidental “honesty” is just so refreshing. Who needs a vice-presidential debate, anyway?