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Progressives skirt questions on whether they'd raise middle-class taxes to pay for health care plans
cbsnews ^ | 07/30/2019 | Camilo Montoya-Galvez

Posted on 08/01/2019 12:33:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The ideological schism between factions within the Democratic Party quickly emerged during the first minutes of the second Democratic debate, with the progressive firebrands on stage strongly defending their "Medicare-for-all" single-payer health care plans and the more centrist candidates casting their proposals as unrealistic and too extreme.

When the CNN moderators for the debate on Tuesday night in Detroit pressed the more progressive White House hopefuls on whether their health care proposals involve a tax hike for the middle class, most candidates skirted the question.

Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — two high-profile progressives who frequently tout their strong and early support for Medicare-for-all — said their health care plans involve tax hikes, but for billionaires and large corporations.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: healthcare; middleclass; progressives; taxes

1 posted on 08/01/2019 12:33:45 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Progressives skirt questions on whether they'd raise middle-class taxes to pay for health care plans

Because the answer is a resounding YES!

2 posted on 08/01/2019 12:35:56 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ('DEPLORABLE' Member of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy & Biden Dreg and DAMN Proud of it!.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They may not want to put an answer on record, but anyone with any sense can figure it out.

Of course they will raise taxes, They will need the money.


3 posted on 08/01/2019 12:36:09 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: ChicagoConservative27
To pay for that much new spending, everyone making over $50K is going to have to look at a tax increase. Plus, the tax increases on corporations and small business will have to be passed on to customers. Trump doesn't care, but soon the US will be tapped out of borrowing capacity or face the same kind of crisis several European countries have faced.

Doesn't sound so "free" does it?

4 posted on 08/01/2019 12:37:57 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Nothing Is More Expensive Than a Free Government Service

https://www.aier.org/article/nothing-more-expensive-free-government-service

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5 posted on 08/01/2019 12:45:55 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Medicare-for-all
INSANITY!!!
6 posted on 08/01/2019 12:47:38 PM PDT by dainbramaged (If you want a friend, rescue a pit bull.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course they “skirt the Q”

Because the answer is YES and they are known liars and connivers

If you like your Dr, you can keep your Dr

If you like your plan, you can keep your plan

The CRA of 64 will not discriminate against Whites

“Affirmative action” will not cause racial quotas

65 Immigration Act will not dilute USA demographics


7 posted on 08/01/2019 12:48:51 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Taxing the Hell out of the rich wont do it. They will have to! Still the whole system will collapse in 6 mths if they have their way! Then everyone will be on the same healthcare plan.- nothing!


8 posted on 08/01/2019 12:51:04 PM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

using skirt in the title description makes me feel genderfied... why can’t we pants the issue... must it be a skirt...

ugh.


9 posted on 08/01/2019 12:54:32 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Yep, as usual the free stuff is just Democrats being generous with other people’s money.


10 posted on 08/01/2019 12:58:40 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It isn’t really difficult to find out who ends up paying - look at places where single-payer is in effect. It isn’t the ultra-wealthy who are being tapped.


11 posted on 08/01/2019 1:00:17 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: teeman8r

If Trump said it, the fake feminists would be in an uproar.


12 posted on 08/01/2019 1:09:15 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No need to ask the question because it will absolutely require the taxes be raised on the middle class.


13 posted on 08/01/2019 1:14:13 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: melsec

Rich = White


14 posted on 08/01/2019 1:16:45 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump is President and CEO of America, Inc.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Which means they would, for sure.


15 posted on 08/01/2019 1:16:49 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
ideological schism between factions within the Democratic Party

Socialist or full-blown totalitarian. Either one's end result will be your enslavement or termination. LOOK at history.

16 posted on 08/01/2019 2:11:16 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: The Sons of Liberty; PGalt; TLI; ChicagoConservative27

17 posted on 08/01/2019 2:42:17 PM PDT by 4Liberty (The taxpayers can always take one more for the team. - The Government)
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To: 4Liberty

Good point. What a POS, lying, SCUMBAG SOCIALIST. He’s instrumental in putting a lot of us in greater poverty.

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850

https://www.usdebtclock.org

Where did any of this money go?

1/20/2009 - $10,626,877,048,913.08
1/18/2013 - $$16,432,617,424,703,.06
1/20/2017 - $19,947,304,555,212.49
YESTERDAY- $22,550,875,791,423.00
TODAY (NOW) - $22,555,374,363,674,201.00+

In addition to this we have “concentration camps” inside the republic. All “representatives” should be twitching on the end of a rope.


18 posted on 08/01/2019 3:00:29 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My head is still spinning from the Obamacare tax. Now this?


19 posted on 08/01/2019 3:00:56 PM PDT by dhs12345
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