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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]amborin
(16,631 posts)57. no one is insisting that; rather, it's that the. 1%, corps., etc. start paying taxes like
The rest of us, and get off the gov't subsidies gravy train. This article shows how the. 1% evades taxes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/economy/for-the-wealthiest-private-tax-system-saves-them-billions.html?_r=0
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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