Posted on 01/26/2021 3:57:05 PM PST by lowbridge
The Vermont school teacher who made Bernie Sanders’ mittens, featured in the most recent viral meme, said she had to stop making them after the federal government taxed her too much.
“People have been contacting me thinking that they can get mittens, and actually they can’t. I don’t have any more, and I don’t have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn’t worth it,” Jen Ellis explained to Slate. “Independent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government. We get taxed to the nth degree, and it wasn’t really worth it pursuing that as a business, even as a side hustle.”
Even though Sanders admitted in 2019 that he would raise taxes on the middle class to support his Medicare for All plan, Ellis has shown support for the senator, sending him the repurposed sweater mittens in 2016 because she was “heartbroken” that he lost the Democratic nomination and “probably wouldn’t run again.”
“I thought, ‘I’d like to make him a pair of mittens.’ And I did,” Ellis said. “I totally remember the night I did it. I was thinking to myself, ‘Is this crazy? I don’t even know this guy.’ But I wanted to make them for him, so I did.”
And despite her outrage at the government for taking her money, Ellis told the Washington Post on Wednesday that she appreciated parts of Sanders’ radical education and debt-forgiveness platform.
“I’m also super pro-Bernie and as a public school teacher, I can see every day how families are struggling. People are just trying to make ends meet and they need things like student loan forgiveness and free education and a lot of the things that Bernie is fighting for,” she said.
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She needs a lesson in charging off expenses on a Sched C.
What a pile of verbal and mental manure from this woman.
I wonder if killing small businesses with taxation helps people out?
Hmmm....let’s raise taxes some more...that will help!
She clearly needs to quit her public school teaching job and stick to knittin’ mittens.
She is pro-Bernie, but she doesn’t get that it’s the Bernies of this world that help make her business not worth the trouble .
What a pile of verbal and mental manure from this woman.
But Ma’am, if the students don’t pay their loans back, the money will need to come from somewhere to help pay for the school itself. Those operating expenses are baked in the cake of running a school or any business open to the public.
There are probably 10 different Chinese companies already pumping those exact same mitten out, now that a market has been created. But darn it! She won’t get a penny of those profits yet to come. Boo Hoo Hoo!
Nicely done!
Yes.
This is the kind of moron that is destroying our country.😵
She still voted for Biden, though.
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Sad to hear she’s a schoolteacher, cuz she’s not very bright.
“A public school teacher” who is so stupid that she supports the very taxes that put her out of business. I might have known.
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