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Hillary Clinton

stopbush

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6. Why won't Sanders be honest?

Reply to IamMab (Original post)

Mon May 9, 2016, 02:07 PM

May 2016

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.

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The Tax Policy Center, a centrist group, totals Bernie's price tag at $33 trillion. [View all] IamMab May 2016 OP

Spreading the cost out so we can all feel the Bern. liberal N proud May 2016 #1

And I bet the people who benefit from "free college" will have a change of heart about it when they IamMab May 2016 #2

This is the thing that I think would really kill him in a general election. sarae May 2016 #3

It would have killed him in the primary, if anyone had reported it months ago. IamMab May 2016 #4

"necessitating the manufacturing of Bernie Sanders as "legitimate" when he was anything but." misterhighwasted May 2016 #5

Why won't Sanders be honest? stopbush May 2016 #6