Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumHas anybody ever added up the cost of all Bernie's tax increases PUT TOGETHER?
The GOP will slaughter us in Nov. if our overriding answer to every problem is:RAISE TAXES on everybody.
But that's what Bernie's proposing. Not only small, selective, increases. And not just hefty increases on the wealthy. At least small increases on everybody, even lower income.
He wants to raise taxes to pay for:
Single-payer health care
Family and medical leave
Social Security
Free college for everyone, even Trumps' kids
And this doesn't include taxes on businesses.
Has anyone added up the cost of all these tax increases put together? If we haven't, the Repubs certainly will.
There are good, valid reasons for tax increases. I strongly support, for example, lifting the social security cap. But I don't think taxing EVERYONE so that anyone who wants to -- no matter how wealthy -- can get free college will be supported by most taxpayers. Especially when added to all the other tax increases Bernie's pushing.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)BigGLiberal
(102 posts)Those of us peons in the middle class will be left holding the Bernie tax bag. No thanks, Bernie. Keep your hands off of our pay checks.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I don't need to spend time with my family.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)so there's that!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)But uncle sugar is gonna make dollar bills fall from the skies so no worries.
And the republicans in the house are going to help him make it all possible! SQUEEEEE!
You just have to...believe!!!
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)... a Clinton won the presidency.
Read my lips, y'all!
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)that he'd be raising taxes -- and so would his opponent -- lost to Ronald Reagan by 49 states.
Tommy2Tone
(1,307 posts)But the blind faithful pay little attention to this. Can you imagine how the GOP would crush him on this in the general election?
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)You KNOW the Heritage Foundation, Grover Norquist's people, and the Koch-suckers have done the numbers already. They're not releasing them because they see Bernie as FAR easier to beat than Hillary.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Honestly.
It's the attacking of the progress that we've made that bothers me. The ACA is progress, and Sanders and his supporters attack it. That doesn't help anyone, other than the GOP.
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)And I haven't seen him add up what all the increases would amount to, and it's guaranteed that the other side will.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Go to the 33 second mark. He says "We will raise taxes, yes, we will."
That's the commercial, right there.
This shit KILLS him--play this over and over again in a 30 second commercial and he couldn't get elected dog catcher.
People do not like taxes, even when they tell each other publicly that they'd pay them and make noises about the common good. They're begrudging about the entire process. They tolerate them. They most certainly do not want MORE of them.
pandr32
(11,588 posts)The middle class needs a raise, not a tax increase.
Walk away
(9,494 posts)Their parents do, but they are voting for Hillary.
A Bernie supporters called me, a life long active Democrat, a Libertarian because I pay taxes and paid for my college education and expect others to do the same.