Democratic Primaries

billpolonsky

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14. Check the source.

Mon Feb 3, 2020, 07:58 PM

Feb 2020

Maya MacGuineas is the president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, director of the Fiscal Policy Program at the New America Foundation, and head of the Fix the Debt campaign. She is a longtime deficit-cutting “hawk,” and headed the Peterson-Pew Commission on Budget Reform,[1] which economist Dean Baker accused of using jingoism to promote its austerity agenda.[2]

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Maya_MacGuineas

Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Committee_for_a_Responsible_Federal_Budget

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Bernie Sanders plan for "free stuff" would cost at least $60 trillion [View all] Gothmog Feb 2020 OP

It's almost as if "free stuff" is/was/will be a RW smear. HerbChestnut Feb 2020 #1

It's a dog whistle for sure. Blues Heron Feb 2020 #4

Steve Schmidt warns that the sociopath will beat the socialist. Gothmog Feb 2020 #8

Who is proposing all of it though? George II Feb 2020 #12

If someone is given stuff for free just for asking NYMinute Feb 2020 #15

Does President Obama know that Prof. Summers is a right winger? Gothmog Feb 2020 #18

Bernie Sanders Admits That "Nobody Knows" Cost of His Health Care Plan TomCADem Feb 2020 #22

We now know why sanders is hiding the costs of his programs Gothmog Feb 2020 #28

The free stuff label is given to every democrat by every republican. just sayin Kurt V. Feb 2020 #2

So LARRY Summers is a right winger? Gothmog Feb 2020 #17

depends. Socially or economically? Kurt V. Feb 2020 #20

LOL-In the real world Prof. Summers is respected and worked for President Obama Gothmog Feb 2020 #27

We might have to sell some aircraft carriers lol Blues Heron Feb 2020 #3

The numbers don't add up. drray23 Feb 2020 #5

we'll just have to scrimp and save then Blues Heron Feb 2020 #7

Or cancel the F-35. OneMoreCupOfCoffee Feb 2020 #9

It's going to be this times a million if this guy wins. nt UniteFightBack Feb 2020 #6

trump would easily destroy a very weak candidate like sanders Gothmog Feb 2020 #29

That same site was slamming journalists as leftwing hacks TheRealNorth Feb 2020 #10

Bankruptcy would be inevitable. democratisphere Feb 2020 #11

The last time I added up the freebies they totaled 119 trillion NYMinute Feb 2020 #13

Check the source. billpolonsky Feb 2020 #14

LOL-The article quotes LARRY Summers Gothmog Feb 2020 #16

Of course we don't want free stuff. Right? No free universal health care. totodeinhere Feb 2020 #19

I never took sanders seriously as a candidate Gothmog Feb 2020 #24

how much do tax cuts cost? free stuff for the rich. pansypoo53219 Feb 2020 #21

CNN-The cost of Sanders' agenda -- possibly $60 trillion -- would set a peacetime US record Gothmog Feb 2020 #23

We have tremendous overspending and waste in the military budget. milestogo Feb 2020 #25

Good plan if all of us got to divy up $60 trillion in stuff. We'd catch up to the brewens Feb 2020 #26

Sanders legislative agenda would have no way of being passed even if elected. Here's why: Gothmog Feb 2020 #30

Oh yes musicman65 Feb 2020 #31

The media should pay much more attention to this. So should debate moderators. highplainsdem Feb 2020 #32

sanders will not tell us how he will pay for his programs Gothmog Feb 2020 #33

Statement from Biden campaign on sanders not knowing cost of his programs Gothmog Feb 2020 #34