SCRANTON, Pa. — President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. “These are the competing visions for our economy that raise questions of fundamental fairness …
“I don’t look at the economy through the eyes of Wall Street and Park Avenue. Now, unless workers, like the people in Scranton or Claymont that Biden referred to, earn better wages and create consumption demand in the economy, the capitalists, i.e., Wall Street and Park Avenue, would not have anywhere to invest. When an economy reaches a critical threshold …
