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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Where Bernie is disingenuous [View all]
(1) His platform calls for increased government spending. However to have an honest discussion on policy you need to discuss the sources of revenue as well. I don't know whether he has raised this issue at his rally: how much revenue will he raise from each source? what are the tax rates that will be increased? who will be impacted?
And no, a "financial transactions tax" is not the gold at the end of the rainbow: painless (on the people who matter), plentiful and without adverse side effect.
(2) free public college: all countries that have tried it impose limits on who qualifies. I don't here any discussion of this.
(3) Denmark/Scandinavia nirvana: not a word of the high taxes on the middle class.
I'm happy to be proven wrong.
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Wow, you mean it will get tighter for Middle Class wage earners getting $250K/year??
Hepburn
Dec 2015
#17
Hillary wants FICA raised on those making $250,000 a year, Sanders wants it raised
Thinkingabout
Dec 2015
#29