DES MOINES, Iowa — Joe Biden agreed with an audience member that America is in the midst of a “class war” and said government-run healthcare was in order, but he also promised everyone attending that he wouldn’t raise their taxes should he be elected president.

“You should have a choice to buy into a public-option healthcare plan like Medicare, now. Folks, we can afford it. We can afford it,” the former vice president said at a rally in Des Moines on Wednesday. “I will not raise your taxes at all, we don’t have to do it if we’re smart enough to deal with taking away some of these ridiculous” tax loopholes.