Posted on 01/26/2016 9:21:17 AM PST by SeekAndFind
After last night’s town hall event on CNN where the Democrat candidates took a final opportunity to address the voters in Iowa, I came away with yet another thing to like about Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders. If nothing else, the guy has the admirable trait of honesty going for him. When the moderator asked if he wouldn’t need to jack up tax rates to put all of his wild eyed proposals into effect, he provided the sort of clarity we so rarely see in politicians. Of course he’s going to raise taxes! (Daily Caller)
Monday during the Democratic Forum hosted by CNN and moderated by Chris Cuomo, Sanders said, "Yes, we will raise, we will raise the, we will raise taxes, yes we will."
Sanders suggested, "But also, let us be clear Chris [Cuomo], because there's a little bit of disingenuity out there. We may raise taxes but we are also going to eliminate private health insurance premiums for individuals and for businesses."
Speaking of a little bit of disingenuity, the part that Bernie failed to mention is that his proposals add up to a staggering $18T over ten years. Even with the massive tax hikes he’s talking about, they only cover roughly $6.5T in new revenue over the same period. Now, math wasn’t my major in school, but wiser heads have already determined that this would be the largest expansion of national spending and debt since the massive buildup during World War 2. But unlike other politicians, Sanders was willing to own up to a piece of the tax hike, so he’s got that going for him.
I wonder if he realizes that he couldn’t even get the Democrats in Congress to sign on for those levels of taxes and spending?
For some reason, this reminded me of the “touching moment” during one of Bernie’s events which everyone was talking about yesterday. It took place when a young woman described how hard it was to raise children on her own on an income of $12K per year.
It's so hard to do anything to pay your bills, you're ashamed all the time…when you can't buy presents for your children it's really really really hard – and I work 3, 4, 5 jobs sometimes, always minimum wage, I have a degree, divorced and it's just I'm waiting for disability to come through so my parents have to support me – it's just hard.
The woman was clearly depressed and had a lot on her mind, but if you watch the video at the link you’ll see that Bernie missed out on a couple of opportunities here. For one thing, he stayed at the podium rather than going down to comfort her one on one. But in terms of this tax policy discussion, there was another piece of low hanging fruit he missed. Just think how much better it would have been if Sanders had walked up to the woman, put his hand on her shoulder, and said, “Don’t worry, young lady. After my plans go into effect the rest of the country will be in the same boat as you so we can all commiserate together. Well… not actually me, of course. I’ll be living in a mansion overlooking the reflecting pool making a half million a year. But the rest of you shall stand in solidarity.”
Man… I missed my calling. I should be his speech writer.
Bernie Sanders is too damn high.
So, why is she expecting “federal disability” to suddenly cut in and give her all the extra money she wants? (Er, need.)
I bet the media won't even mention this but they'll sure as hell mention it when Trump talks about CUTTING taxes for working men and women in this country.
Last presidential candidate to promise raising taxes was Walter Mondale. We all know how that ended.
go ahead raise taxes....I'll retire in a couple of years and I'll be poor on paper....let the govt employees foot the bill....their the only ones doing really well in the bammy economy...
This is the problem with Socialists: they tell you that they'll raise your taxes but when you ask how much more they need, they imply, "all of it!"
Of course you’re going to lose.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
― Margaret Thatcher
Hitler, and a whole bunch of other evil people were fully able to give you their true feelings about a particular subject. That "honesty" doesn't make them more palatable.
And when the economy cracks like an overstuffed piñata, out will come a thousand squirming pit vipers ushering in a new socialist utopia.
But he’ll pump the water out of the other guys side of the lake.
Raise taxes. Yeah, that’ll work. And when they raised the cigarette tax in N.Y. their tax revenue went down.
Then what, Bernie?
Flaming communist idiot. Compared to Hitlery, also a self-identified Marxist in her comments, at least he tells much of the truth about his commie agenda.
The thing is it will be high but not sure about 18 trillion because the premiums won’t be paid to insurance companies which will go out of business I assume. The 2.2 percent increase in taxes for everyone will be what causes Bernie Sanders to lose the Presidency. I still don’t think he will be the nominee.
and I work 3, 4, 5 jobs sometimes, always minimum wage, I have a degree, divorced and it’s just I’m waiting for disability to come through so my parents have to support me – it’s just hard.
So if whe’s working 3, 4, 5 jobs how does she figure she’s disabled.
Hillary will mention it - trying to gain middle class support while alienating the moonbats.
I’ll take the communist over THE BEAST anytime. Unfortunately that’s how we got Omoron as Resident.
"Uh oh...It's Huge Prices! He is just too damned high!"
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