Bernie Sanders Proposes War Tax on Millionaires. Plans to add Amendment to Republican Budget [View all]

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It's almost as if he has been listening in to Progressives who for years were proposing making them pay if war is what they want. Damn he is a fighter. Won't let the Repubs rest for a minute. Let's see what they do with this.

Bernie Sanders calls for 'war tax' on millionaires

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is planning to offer an amendment to the GOP budget next week that would impose a new tax on millionaires to finance U.S. military operations.

The “war tax” will be one of the first Sanders will introduce during the vote-a-rama next week. During the back-to-back votes, senators are allowed to submit an unlimited amount of amendments.

“The Republicans took us into protracted wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — and ran up our national debt by trillions because they chose not to pay for those wars. Instead, they put the cost of those wars on our national credit card,” Sanders said in a statement Friday.


Sanders, a potential 2016 presidential contender, is ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee.

He’s upset with a provision Senate Republicans added to their blueprint Thursday that would increase defense spending next year by pumping up the Pentagon’s war funding account to $96 billion.

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Yes he does 'get cooler by the minute'!

He doesn't just give us rhetoric, 'we must do something about poverty' etc, he provides solutions, ideas, even introduces legislation whenever he can.

THAT is why he is filling up venues beyond capacity and getting standing ovations everywhere he goes.

He is saying what people have been thinking and wishing they could hear politicians say these things out load for so long.