if everyone gets something from Bernie, who is the one actually paying? ever wondered that? I do.

[hill2016]

the young get free college and maybe get loan forgiveness
older adults get universal health care
seniors get increased social security benefits

who actually pays?

[revbones]

1. Nice republican talking points. "Free stuff" nt

[hill2016]

2. these are all on his website

[revbones]

4. Yeah, I'm sure it says "Free stuff" take your republican talking points off this site

and back to your day job.

[Buzz Clik]

55. Woohoo! Republican talking points? Bull-friggin-shit.

You honestly don't have a clue about the impact of these economically crippling proposals? Wow!!


btw -- I expect you on the front lines screaming "Nice republican talking points!!" every time one of your compatriots dusts off a Rovian smear of HRC. You'll be there, right?

[revbones]

59. I think you're talking about yourself. You should try reading them. Might help. nt

[pangaia]

3. Oh,go back to bed.

[TheBlackAdder]

22. This sure looks and smells like the next meme trial balloon being floated here.

[Buzz Clik]

56. You, as well. No sense thinking about issues. Let's just sleep through it.

[amborin]

5. juvenile questions -evidence of zero grasp of any issues

[ViseGrip]

6. Are you a republican? Who is paying for the mess in Libya? Huh?

[Broward]

7. More evidence of right-wing infiltration.

[nichomachus]

8. And if everyone gets nothing from Hillary, where does your money go?

Into her pocket as usual.

[tralala]

9. The tooth fairy

[jmg257]

10. Cool you are still up...and on a school night!

Psst...Taxes...basically we all do.

[pangaia]

34. LOL..nt

[seabeyond]

11. Well, you see, the person that does not want to work for the first couple decades of his adult life

can get his free college and health care off the backs of the workers burden to pay the taxes for that free college and health care. seems like a deal to all those that graduate from college and then doesn't get a real paying job for a couple decades. Can play in Marxism and socialism and hook up one electricity to a landlords outlet. Quite the deal.

[Kalidurga]

14. Pathetic

[libtodeath]

46. I need a translator to read what that person wrote.

[Kalidurga]

67. It's your lucky day. I have a translator.

I hate children who have parents to poor to pay for their college or who won't work full time and go to college and starve for 8 years while trying to get a college degree cuz poor people always want free chit.

[tralala]

18. Same but about K-12 education

[beedle]

25. You have a very low opinion of Americans

other countries that have "free stuff' don't seem to have this problem ... is it just Americans that are this lazy and corrupt? What makes you think Americans are so inferior?

[pangaia]

35. R u voting for cruzer? Sure sounds like it.

[Newkularblue]

39. This is literally

Weapons grade stupid...

When you invest in people and educate them, they get good jobs and make more money. When they make more money they pay more taxes than were spent on thier education...

And if they did manage to 'take a decade off' (assuming they dont require.. oh.. FOOD or anything) when they do go to work they.... wait for it... pay taxes.

Good night

[TheFarS1de]

12. You forgot "Unicorns and Fairies"

Brock will not be happy with you .

[morningfog]

13. All in all out. You aren't that stupid are you? Maybe you are.

[ThePhilosopher04]

15. Talk about Republican talking points. Right out of the playbook, page one at that.

[TheBlackAdder]

16. Just you. Oh, and all Libertarians.

[Gregorian]

17. The better question is who isn't paying their taxes now.

It's the fact that we have a military which is literally ten times the size it should/could ought to be.

Our problems are not financial. They're political. We have the money.

It's the same question you asked, just looking at it from the perspective of fairness. Right now things aren't fair, or we wouldn't have such a great income difference.

[reformist2]

19. I take it the OP is worried about the billionaires losing some of their wealth for the common good.

[jmg257]

38. Yep - it might cut into some of her/his off shore bank accounts. Hill2016 has plenty. nt

[senseandsensibility]

20. So the one percenters aren't getting anything

They're paying for it because they can, and because they've reaped all the benefits of our hard work for decades. Also, hill, no one claimed that the one percenters would get anything, let alone Bernie. But I guess that's what is really bothering you.

[hill2016]

40. do you seriously think that 1% of the people

can pay for the other 99% of the people? Health care, college, social security?

NO. The maths only works if the middle class pays more in taxes. Which Bernie has NEVER been honest about.

[hobbit709]

42. If the people that make 99% of the money actually paid 99% of the taxes, there'd be no problem.

But the 1% of the income earners get to pay for the wars that make all the money for those at the top.

[hill2016]

47. the 1% does not make 99% of the money.

they make 19% of all income and pay 38% of all federal income taxes.


http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/29/news/economy/top-1-income/

[hobbit709]

49. That's because capital gains aren't taxed like actual working for a living income.

Like the 5 Walmart heirs have more wealth than the bottom 60,000,000 Americans.

[rachacha]

21. Bernie's crazy idea is to use tax money on things we actually need

Or we could just fund more wars and keep subsidizing corporate welfare.

[villager]

23. Just as long as the fat pie slices of your beloved military-industrial complex aren't threatened!

I really really do want to vote for Hillary in the fall if she is the nominee.

But with these gleefully diarrhetic rightwing talking points constantly posted in her "favor," it increasingly raises profound doubts about her.

[pangaia]

37. There is no doubt whatsoever.

She is a corporatist who runs with her corporate buddies.

[Downwinder]

24. I'm just trying to figure out why YOU are paying

$72,000 a year to keep me alive.

[HassleCat]

26. You do.

We're raising your taxes to $500 billion a year.

[ZombieHorde]

27. They're paid by taxes, just like everything else.

This primary is turning DU toward the right, which is interesting to watch.

[dflprincess]

28. How do they manage to do it in Europe?

So sad to see the U.S. falling further and further behind the rest of the world with our "That's not possible" attitude.

[Chasstev365]

29. Why do you prefer your tax dollars going to

1. Corporate subsides
2. Defense Contractors
3. The Upper 1%
4. Foreign wars

I'd prefer free stuff like universal healthcare, college tuition, alternative fuel delvelopment, and better mass transit

[Politicalboi]

30. Nope I don't even think about it

When our government can spend $43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan then they most certainly can help us Americans out. When our government build tanks we won't use they can give us some money. When corporations like Wal Mart can hire for dirt wages and use our system to feed their employees, they can be taxed more.

It's time the very rich pay.

[Warren DeMontague]

31. "Older adults get universal health care" - wow, what a radical idea

Seniors not having to eat cat food - crazy talk!

Young people being educated for the jobs of the 21st century without being in hock all the way into the 22nd - LUNACY and BALDERDASH!


Who pays? Who can POSSIBLY afford such largesse, especially given that we cant possibly cut the billions of dollars we spend every year putting people in prison for shit like pot smoking, or the trillion or so we spend on the military.

Verily. Its a conundrum, wherever will we find all that money?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. You do.

[HooptieWagon]

33. Sounds like a republican talking point.

Rather than spending money on war and corporate welfare, how about spending it on education and healthcare?

[jfern]

36. Are you against free K-12 too?

[hill2016]

41. they

are funded by people who live in the community. they are not free.

[DanTex]

43. His plans are all hypothetical. If they went into effect there would have to be a lot more tax

increases than he lets on. They're just empty campaign promises.

[libtodeath]

44. Another day at free republic I see.

[LexVegas]

45. Berniebros' parents. nt

[LexVegas]

61. There it is. nt

[LexVegas]

64. Its disgusting that bros is equivalent to hoes in your world, yes. nt

[Fumesucker]

48. Why do we park in the driveway and drive on the parkway? Ever wondered that? I do..

It's just ridiculous and confusing, no wonder our kids are stupid, lazy and want free everything just spoon fed into their mouths by sexy robots.

Can't we just this once think of the children?

[floppyboo]

50. did bill and hillary go to the food bank to feed Chelsea when they were flat broke? n/t

[BillZBubb]

51. Right wing talking points from a Hillary supporter--who would have ever expected that!

[hereforthevoting]

52. There is so much waste

And so many people getting rich in illegitimate ways.....

the money is there.


Some might come from you, a piddly amount, yes! But you are a dem so you put your money where your mouth is.


Or join the correct party.

[redstateblues]

53. Let's nationalize the auto industry and provide free cars

Transportation is an essential need in our society. Why does making automobiles have to be for profit?

[My Good Babushka]

54. How does the military get all those free planes, and ships and, drones and bombs? nt

[JudyM]

57. You don't feel like looking this up yourself? It's all on his website, easy to find and understand.

~200 economists agree with his numbers.

[choie]

60. We ALL do...

it's called "the commons" and the money will also come from the extremely bloated defense spending, corporate taxes, among others. Stop the right wing talking points crap.

[CentralMass]

63. It is misguided thinking and poor leadership and policies decision that have people like you making

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statements like this.
Our government has made horrendously bad fiscal and foreign policy decisions over the last two decades. Decisions that have crippled the country economically and left us with gross income equality and 46.5 muon people living in poverty. Our foreign policy decisions have destabilized and armed most of the middle east and created ISIS.

Bernie Sander's votes, sentiments and heart have been on the right side of virtually all of these decisions.

I recall reading some articles back in November about the Air Force running out of bombs to drop on ISILand ISIS. If I recall the government had spent $1.25 bIllion on bombs since August of 2014 when the bombing campaign started All because our leadership made disastrous foreign policy choices. How many trillions of dollars have these bad decisons cost us ? Whst is the global death toll from these wars ? Would in just that small example, that $1.25 bIllion been better spent here ? Our government is throwing people who desperately need help of food stamps etc..

Its time to stop defending ing the status quo.



I'm going to vote for the guy who makes the wise political choices.

There is never a problem finding the money to bail out crooked financial institutions, or dole out corporate welfare, our to fund the perpetual wars that our establishment politicians lead us into to, but there is no money to invest in the people if this country..

We need a change in thinking and in leadership.

[Shadowflash]

66. Since you apparently have no idea how Google works....

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+bernie+sanders+pays+for+his+programs

[jillan]

68. You do. The NSA is currently working with Bernie to get your name and address. Expect the bill in

2020.

[Prism]

69. It would cut into my nanny budget

I don't have children. But I do have cats that get a bit wily.