'Tax things that are bad': Yet another controversial J.D. Vance video resurfaces
Another controversial video of Donald Trump's running mate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) airing his opinions on families was resurfaced Friday.
The Democratic political action committee American Bridge shared an interview from 2021 in which Vance told far-right activist Charlie Kirk that America should "punish the things that we think are bad."
He then elaborates.
"Let's tax the things that are bad and not tax the things that are good," he tells Kirk. "If you are making $100,000, $400,000-a-year and you have got three kids, you should pay a different lower tax rate than if you are making the same amount of money and don't have three kids.
"It's that simple."
Vance earlier this week caused a stir when a different video showed him complaining about "childless cat ladies" having decision-making positions in Washington, D.C.
"We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too," Vance said in a 2021 interview with former Fox host Tucker Carlson.
Vance tried to shift the conversation when speaking to Megyn Kelly in an interview that aired Friday, and claimed that the cat remark was a "sarcastic comment."
“I’ve got nothing against cats,” he said. “I’ve got nothing against dogs, I’ve got one dog at home and I love him.
"It's not a criticism of people who don't have children. I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who, for various reasons, didn't have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child," he said, according to reports.
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During her MSNBC show Thursday, Alex Wager called out Vance's opinions, saying that they were "rooted in his childhood trauma."
See the clip in the video below or at the link here.
JD Vance claimed childless adults should pay a higher tax rate than those with children. 3/22/21 www.youtube.com