Factcheck.org responds to accusations in a tweetstorm from Senator Sanders re: Mercatus study

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170. The "facts" are on Bernie's side. (In this instance)

The numbers used in the study do indicate a large overall savings to Americans in general, despite the increased portion of those costs born by the government.

That is what the numbers used in the study show.

If the study didn't actually use those numbers, then Factcheck would be correct to point that out.

But that isn't the case.

However, they still felt the need to push back somehow. That typically happens with all proposals that are considered too "liberal" and outside of what the pundit class considers the mainstream consensus. This is the same impulse that led Politico to nominate a (basically true) statement from President Obama as 2013's "lie" of the year. It's the same impulse that fed the media's obsession with Hillary's emails. It's a real problem, and I resent the hell out of people who are more than willing to acknowledge it in some situations but than act like it's a crazy conspiracy theory in others.