The Tax Policy Center, a centrist group, totals Bernie's price tag at $33 trillion.

[IamMab]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/bernie-sanders-government-spending-plan-222968

His proposed tax increases would not come anywhere close to covering those costs, the centrist Tax Policy Center said Monday, and his plan would drive federal debt to “unprecedented” levels.

Now we know for sure he's no Democrat, because the deficit goes down under Democratic Presidents, not up to "unprecedented" levels. That's a designation usually reserved for Republicans.

But Sanders has already proposed so many tax hikes on the wealthy that he would have to start looking at taxpayers further down the income ladder for the additional revenue needed to make his budget plans work, the Tax Policy Center said. That, in turn, would change the distribution of winners and losers under Sanders’s plans, the group said.

But the middle class should be so glad, right? Bernie knows how to spend their money better than they do, after all. A pervasive case of Know-It-All-ism is the foundation of his entire political career.

[liberal N proud]

1. Spreading the cost out so we can all feel the Bern.

All those free college tuitions he promised have a pretty hefty price tag.

[IamMab]

2. And I bet the people who benefit from "free college" will have a change of heart about it when they

finally do have to contribute towards it for someone else's kids.

[sarae]

3. This is the thing that I think would really kill him in a general election.

And it's also the thing the media hasn't focused on at all, with regards to Sanders. When people point to polls where he does better than Hillary vs. Trump, it seems insane to me that they haven't factored this in.

[IamMab]

4. It would have killed him in the primary, if anyone had reported it months ago.

Instead, Bernie got a free pass because the media needed two horse races but only had one on the GOP side, necessitating the manufacturing of Bernie Sanders as "legitimate" when he was anything but.

[misterhighwasted]

5. "necessitating the manufacturing of Bernie Sanders as "legitimate" when he was anything but."

I'll just repeat that phrase & bold it

necessitating the manufacturing of Bernie Sanders as "legitimate" when he was anything but.


NECESSITATING THE MANUFACTURING OF BERNIE SANDERS AS "LEGITIMATE" WHEN HE WAS ANYTHING BUT

[stopbush]

6. Why won't Sanders be honest?

Because he knows that no one would back him if he told the truth.

He loves to talk about socialist Denmark as being a model. Well, the tax rate in Denmark is over 45% across the board. How would most Americans feel paying a tax rate of 45%? Giving basically HALF your yearly earnings to the federal government? And we're talking about everyone paying it, not just the wealthy.