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Elizabeth Warren stopped cold by Colbert's question. (Original Post) Towlie Sep 2019 OP
I love how smart Senator Warren is. lark Sep 2019 #1
Actual Video Fan of Da Bearse Sep 2019 #2
She was on with Colbert last Tuesday Rhiannon12866 Sep 2019 #3
How long will Warren dodge on health care and taxes? Gothmog Sep 2019 #4
 

lark

(22,941 posts)
1. I love how smart Senator Warren is.
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 04:32 PM
Sep 2019

Right now she's a strong #2 on my primary list.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Fan of Da Bearse

(75 posts)
2. Actual Video
Sun Sep 22, 2019, 04:43 PM
Sep 2019

The question comes at the 5:21 mark.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Rhiannon12866

(202,190 posts)
3. She was on with Colbert last Tuesday
Mon Sep 23, 2019, 02:21 AM
Sep 2019

I posted the video here:

Stephen Colbert - Guest Elizabeth Warren: A Country That Elects Donald Trump Is Already In Trouble
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287284528

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Gothmog

(143,654 posts)
4. How long will Warren dodge on health care and taxes?
Tue Sep 24, 2019, 01:21 AM
Sep 2019



None other than late-night host Stephen Colbert made it painfully clear that Warren is ducking. He asked twice about whether taxes will go up and practically begged her to level with voters. “I’ve listened to these answers a few times before," he said, "and I just want to make a parallel suggestion to you that you might defend the taxes, perhaps, you’re not mentioning in your sentence: ‘Isn’t Medicare for All like public school? There might be taxes for it, but you save money sending your kids to school, and do you want to live in a world where your kids aren’t educated? Do you want to live in a world where your fellow Americans are dying?’”

Let’s be clear: If Colbert and debate moderators can figure this out, her opponents in the primary and, more important, the Republicans in the general election will hit her again and again.

It is not simply a matter of the viability of her health-care plan. It goes to her core critique of the moderates: They are too timid and too scared to do the big things. Well, perhaps they have figured out what the big things cost and don’t see they are economically or politically viable.

Warren’s brand is truth-telling about the rich and powerful, but you simply cannot get the rich and big corporations to pay for all of it. The Medicare-for-all plan introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is presumably the basis for Warren’s idea — despite all her other plans, she has little specifics on health care. Sanders’s plan posits a number of funding sources and specifies a premium for families (“a typical family of four earning $50,000, after taking the standard deduction, would pay a 4 percent income-based premium to fund Medicare for All — just $844 a year — saving that family over $4,400 a year. Because of the standard deduction, families of four making less than $29,000 a year would not pay this premium”). Now, there are a lot of people who consider themselves middle-class who might have to pay more, but at least Sanders makes some effort to spell out the costs and the savings.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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