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Showing Original Post only (View all)How long will Warren dodge on health care and taxes? [View all]
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None other than late-night host Stephen Colbert made it painfully clear that Warren is ducking. He asked twice about whether taxes will go up and practically begged her to level with voters. Ive listened to these answers a few times before," he said, "and I just want to make a parallel suggestion to you that you might defend the taxes, perhaps, youre not mentioning in your sentence: Isnt Medicare for All like public school? There might be taxes for it, but you save money sending your kids to school, and do you want to live in a world where your kids arent educated? Do you want to live in a world where your fellow Americans are dying?
Lets be clear: If Colbert and debate moderators can figure this out, her opponents in the primary and, more important, the Republicans in the general election will hit her again and again.
It is not simply a matter of the viability of her health-care plan. It goes to her core critique of the moderates: They are too timid and too scared to do the big things. Well, perhaps they have figured out what the big things cost and dont see they are economically or politically viable.
Warrens brand is truth-telling about the rich and powerful, but you simply cannot get the rich and big corporations to pay for all of it. The Medicare-for-all plan introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is presumably the basis for Warrens idea despite all her other plans, she has little specifics on health care. Sanderss plan posits a number of funding sources and specifies a premium for families (a typical family of four earning $50,000, after taking the standard deduction, would pay a 4 percent income-based premium to fund Medicare for All just $844 a year saving that family over $4,400 a year. Because of the standard deduction, families of four making less than $29,000 a year would not pay this premium). Now, there are a lot of people who consider themselves middle-class who might have to pay more, but at least Sanders makes some effort to spell out the costs and the savings.
Lets be clear: If Colbert and debate moderators can figure this out, her opponents in the primary and, more important, the Republicans in the general election will hit her again and again.
It is not simply a matter of the viability of her health-care plan. It goes to her core critique of the moderates: They are too timid and too scared to do the big things. Well, perhaps they have figured out what the big things cost and dont see they are economically or politically viable.
Warrens brand is truth-telling about the rich and powerful, but you simply cannot get the rich and big corporations to pay for all of it. The Medicare-for-all plan introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is presumably the basis for Warrens idea despite all her other plans, she has little specifics on health care. Sanderss plan posits a number of funding sources and specifies a premium for families (a typical family of four earning $50,000, after taking the standard deduction, would pay a 4 percent income-based premium to fund Medicare for All just $844 a year saving that family over $4,400 a year. Because of the standard deduction, families of four making less than $29,000 a year would not pay this premium). Now, there are a lot of people who consider themselves middle-class who might have to pay more, but at least Sanders makes some effort to spell out the costs and the savings.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Colbert called out Warren over her consistent refusal to say whether middle-class will increase
Gothmog
Sep 2019
#1
It did!! Besides, those that have employer based plans will not look on favorably
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#23
Really? How do you know management will raise compensation? They could just take the money.
dem4decades
Sep 2019
#28
This!! Corporations are greedy. like the tax break- going to invest into new jobs & infrastructure
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#30
unions giving up raises and benefits for "job security" the past 10yrs has not worked so well n/t
Bidenator
Sep 2019
#53
Warren does need to come up with a clear, concise response to the question of M4A taxes
Fiendish Thingy
Sep 2019
#2
I think she's relying on BS to address Medicare for All taxes, since it's his plan she's going with.
George II
Sep 2019
#5
i think her support for MFA is more political strategy. she is trying to get Sanders supporters
JI7
Sep 2019
#36
Here. For the most part, by stopping the looting that's been going on for 40 years.
Hassin Bin Sober
Sep 2019
#14
So, basically, if we institute all of those new tax initiatives, Sanders's MFA claims make sense?
stopbush
Sep 2019
#17
Transforming healthcare is but one of the investment-intensive promises she is running on.
emmaverybo
Sep 2019
#11
This.... it will not be passed into law with a gop senate. Thing is she's knows that!!
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#24
That was her answer when asked about paying for M4All at the first debate. It is a non-answer.
emmaverybo
Sep 2019
#16
Democrats want answers. And not all of us believe that Warren can overcome a Republican senate
emmaverybo
Sep 2019
#39
This!! As long as she evades the answer of cost there are going to be objections.
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#26
I don't think DU'ers are against some kind of universal health care, not at all
Thekaspervote
Sep 2019
#25
Depends. How long will people pretend that MFA and universal health care are interchangeable?
DrToast
Sep 2019
#33
Neither Sanders nor Warren explain how all these great policies including MFA
Demsrule86
Sep 2019
#29
Warren gave Obama and Clinton hell for supposedly not having transparency in trade agreements, now
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#35
Fine with me, spell it out. Of course, a lot of Democrats work for military contractors & insurance
Hoyt
Sep 2019
#42
K&R! Thanks, Gothmog! I noticed that during her Late Show appearance last night, too. Frank Bruni
highplainsdem
Sep 2019
#43
The easiest solution is to not call it a tax, but a premium, because that's what it is n/t
Blaukraut
Sep 2019
#46