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Sanders: Taking More than 50% of Income Through Taxes Is ‘Absolutely’ Fair for Some
Breitbart ^ | 03/03/2023 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 03/04/2023 8:36:49 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that taking more than half of someone’s income through taxes is “absolutely” fair for some earners.

Host Bill Maher asked, “I hear you all the time say, the rich don’t pay their fair share. Now, maybe that’s true of those three guys you mentioned [Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Jeff Bezos], they are pretty rich. But, I guess I’m not very rich, but I pay more than half. California is 13.3% and the federal is 37% for people who make over 250k…and then there [are] the state and local and property taxes. So, I don’t remember the last year I paid less than…and again, I’m philosophically kind of with you. I’ve always said wealth is a fluke. So, I don’t ever go like, oh, I deserve all this. I did work hard, but it is kind of a fluke what we reward to make someone — so, philosophically, I get it. I’m okay with giving back. But the government is taking more than half and you want more?”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; billgates; billmaher; california; elonmusk; fair; income; jeffbezos; sanders; taxes; vermont
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrat Socialists descended Germany into Civil War and Hyperinflation and will do exactly the same thing here if given the chance.


21 posted on 03/04/2023 9:15:52 AM PST by R0CK3T
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Simple a flat tax $40 thousand to $100 billion a 10 to 15 percent tax everyone gets gouged at the same rate.

No loopholes or exceptions but the D.C. Mafia hates the idea they will have to pay taxes on their umm speaker money and other exempt items.


22 posted on 03/04/2023 9:23:06 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seeing as how most of the rich these days are liberals, I say make ‘em pay as much taxes as possible. I’m over it.


23 posted on 03/04/2023 9:24:17 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If we were helping people by giving them ‘money for nothing’ I might buy what Sanders is saying. By all that is holy, what Sander’s wants should work.

But it doesn’t.

Instead of Eden dependent broken homeless drug addicts are created... Insane psychopaths step into the void running governments feeding off degeneracy... putting up Potemkin Villages. Come on Bernie - look deeper. Go past ‘what looks good’ to what is good.


24 posted on 03/04/2023 9:42:55 AM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: SamAdams76

This evil prick believes in 100% inheritance tax.


25 posted on 03/04/2023 9:51:49 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fair share = All of it.


26 posted on 03/04/2023 9:58:52 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Mr. N. Wolfe

“Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that taking more than half of someone’s income through taxes is “absolutely” fair for some earners.”

So said the man who’s never worked a real job in his long commie life…


27 posted on 03/04/2023 9:59:57 AM PST by telescope115 (My feet are on the ground, and my head is in the stars.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s right up there with ‘stakeholder’


28 posted on 03/04/2023 10:03:34 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ll start with Sanders, straight from the horse’s @$$:

“It’s absolutely fair for Bernie Sanders to pay 150% of his income in taxes.”

Let’s start there and see how long he keeps digging...

Repeat as needed with any other woke idiot.


29 posted on 03/04/2023 10:32:19 AM PST by mywholebodyisaweapon ("Carthago Delenda Est")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Fair share”

What a bogus concept. There is no “fair share.”

There are two kind of shares:

1. Shares in a corporation that are owned by stockholders.

2. The playground version of share.

Sanders, Democrats, etc. all mean the second definition, as if it’s something that’s real and as if it applies to each of us.


30 posted on 03/04/2023 10:42:25 AM PST by Jay W
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When oh when will he finally be gone form the political scene?


31 posted on 03/04/2023 10:49:23 AM PST by simpson96
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To: ChicagoConservative27
criminal mentality
looter mentality
32 posted on 03/04/2023 10:56:24 AM PST by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How much does Bernie pay?


33 posted on 03/04/2023 3:05:30 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The “socialist” Bernie Sanders has 3 homes and a vette and millions of unspent campaign money.

What exactly is your ‘fair share’
of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?

- Thomas Sowell


34 posted on 03/04/2023 4:58:56 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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