2016 Postmortem

DownriverDem

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33. Bernie will increase my taxes

Sat Feb 20, 2016, 02:39 PM

Feb 2016

My husband and I would have to pay over $2,000 more in taxes if Bernie could manage to get his legislation through the RWNJ repub House. Go to fivethirtyeight.com Then click on Primary Forecasts. The dropdown box allows you to pick whatever race you are interested in. Nate Silver is has an excellent reputation for predicting elections.

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It's NOT "Free Stuff" It's Using Taxes to Fund What We Actually Need [View all] amborin Feb 2016 OP

happy to be the first k and r restorefreedom Feb 2016 #1

so true Duckhunter935 Feb 2016 #2

kick and Recco'd (NT) ghostsinthemachine Feb 2016 #3

Precisely. "Free wars" cost a lot more than most of DirkGently Feb 2016 #4

Exactly! well said Dirk. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #24

I like your handle too. DirkGently Feb 2016 #37

You nailed it. 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #40

WTF? $7.8 Billion in Walmart subsidies?? DiehardLiberal Feb 2016 #5

might be food stamps, etc, to keep their underpaid workers from starving eShirl Feb 2016 #9

PLUS the well-rewarded outsourcing that lets them own more than 42% of Americans MisterP Feb 2016 #25

Walmart subsidies - ebayfool Feb 2016 #11

Thanks for explanation! DiehardLiberal Feb 2016 #20

Most welcome :) n/t ebayfool Feb 2016 #38

things we need that affirm life rather than create death tk2kewl Feb 2016 #6

+10000000000000000000000000000000000000 Faux pas Feb 2016 #8

K N R Faux pas Feb 2016 #7

Of course its not free, I just did the math, Bearnies health care plan will cost me extra 5k a year Travis_0004 Feb 2016 #10

What are you paying now? Please include any company contribution that you get in place of salary. Vincardog Feb 2016 #29

Im self employed, so I have no employer Travis_0004 Feb 2016 #34

So you have no health care now? Bernie's plan would cost you an addtional 5K how? Vincardog Feb 2016 #35

yes Travis_0004 Feb 2016 #48

So you think you are better off with no coverage. Vincardog Feb 2016 #50

I replied to the wrong post. i have coverage now Travis_0004 Feb 2016 #54

And even if none of this passes in 8 years, Qutzupalotl Feb 2016 #12

^^^ This ^^^ cantbeserious Feb 2016 #18

KnR GreenPartyVoter Feb 2016 #13

Exactly. It's how we allocate tax dollars. stillwaiting Feb 2016 #14

President Sanders wants us to invest in people. As he has stated, neglecting them has lead to jtuck004 Feb 2016 #15

knr so bad nt retrowire Feb 2016 #16

Right On - Spending The Money We Already Have For Better - More Appropriate - And Useful Purposes cantbeserious Feb 2016 #17

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #19

These are the genuine security issues: health, education, jobs, infrastructure suffragette Feb 2016 #21

K & R!!! Thespian2 Feb 2016 #22

As soon as he gets the nomination... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #23

So even if you tear apart the US miltary and Boudica the Lyoness Feb 2016 #26

Furthermore, those ships and planes create jobs. Boudica the Lyoness Feb 2016 #41

It's not free, but the proposals from the Sanders campaign aren't accurately funded mythology Feb 2016 #27

The 'free stuff' meme is RW trash-talk, unbecoming for REAL Democrats to use 99th_Monkey Feb 2016 #28

Bingo Populist_Prole Feb 2016 #31

K&R! Duval Feb 2016 #30

Thank you! avaistheone1 Feb 2016 #32

Bernie will increase my taxes DownriverDem Feb 2016 #33

Recommended! H2O Man Feb 2016 #36

"Free" is when oil companies and defense contractors which are insanely profitable get taxpayer GoneFishin Feb 2016 #39

Dwight Eisenhower loved Bernie's democratic socialism , so do I . Just read what IKE stood for and geretogo Feb 2016 #42

Our side should never use the word free. Universal health care, no tuition for college, that sort brewens Feb 2016 #43

and we have to fight this fight within our OWN PARTY now, that's the worst of it MisterP Feb 2016 #44

Next the corporatocracy will be telling us WAR is free, too. Well, it is to the WAR PROFITEERS. nt valerief Feb 2016 #45

Great list! Ferd Berfel Feb 2016 #46

MUST ALL SEE... zentrum Feb 2016 #47

This framing drives me bonkers. Arugula Latte Feb 2016 #49

This should be headline news Rosa Luxemburg Feb 2016 #51

EXACTLY! K&R'd! snot Feb 2016 #52

Hey, I loves me some free stuff: public schools, roads, bridges, Coast Guard, merrily Feb 2016 #53

Why not have all Americans contribute to the cost of these programs? MadDAsHell Feb 2016 #55

no one is insisting that; rather, it's that the. 1%, corps., etc. start paying taxes like amborin Feb 2016 #57

And yet: AzDar Feb 2016 #56

dem establishment has been exposed Robbins Feb 2016 #58