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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It's NOT "Free Stuff" It's Using Taxes to Fund What We Actually Need [View all]MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)55. Why not have all Americans contribute to the cost of these programs?
I love Bernies ideas for new programs, but why is the cost proposed to go almost entirely to the wealthy? Yes, they have money, but so do the rest of us (if maybe not as much).
Insisting that .1% of America exclusively pay for the benefits the rest of us will enjoy will just further entrench the us v. them mentality.
Besides, it's never good fiscal policy to have people insisting on new costs/expenditures that they themselves will never have to pay for. You're talking about 99.9% of America enjoying these benefits with no skin in the game.
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PLUS the well-rewarded outsourcing that lets them own more than 42% of Americans
MisterP
Feb 2016
#25
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
So you have no health care now? Bernie's plan would cost you an addtional 5K how?
Vincardog
Feb 2016
#35
President Sanders wants us to invest in people. As he has stated, neglecting them has lead to
jtuck004
Feb 2016
#15
Right On - Spending The Money We Already Have For Better - More Appropriate - And Useful Purposes
cantbeserious
Feb 2016
#17
These are the genuine security issues: health, education, jobs, infrastructure
suffragette
Feb 2016
#21
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
"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