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budkin

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18. By making the rich pay for it of course

Reply to Jersey Devil (Original post)

Wed Mar 11, 2020, 03:01 PM

Mar 2020

Do you have a problem with that?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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So, Bernie, how are you going to pay for the free stuff? Details please [View all] Jersey Devil Mar 2020 OP

Socialist math. HarlanPepper Mar 2020 #1

Here's one: "Inasmuch your mother died of heart disease when she was 46.... George II Mar 2020 #2

tax the rich. nationalize businesses? Aint that the play out of the socialist playbook? beachbumbob Mar 2020 #3

The Sanders campaign is like an old time medicine show mindem Mar 2020 #4

They were called snake charmers. William769 Mar 2020 #38

This is the problem I have when they keep showing the m4a exit poll number Claustrum Mar 2020 #5

First no. squirecam Mar 2020 #15

well Claustrum Mar 2020 #19

It ain't 'free stuff'. Europeans have it. It ain't 'free'. They just choose to pay for pampango Mar 2020 #6

It is "free stuff" until you explain how to pay for it Jersey Devil Mar 2020 #9

Fine. Go ahead and join Trump and FOX News in calling any liberal program just 'free stuff'. pampango Mar 2020 #12

I am just asking a simple question - How do you pay for these programs? Jersey Devil Mar 2020 #13

If you want a society like Germany or Sweden, you should probably do what they do. pampango Mar 2020 #16

Well, now we are getting somewhere Jersey Devil Mar 2020 #17

FDR did not campaign on a 90% tax rate. pampango Mar 2020 #22

Thank you for an honest answer and a realistic approach Hav Mar 2020 #21

His problem is he makes big promises before he gets elected. brush Mar 2020 #53

CNN-Sanders' agenda: Its cost -- possibly $60 trillion -- would set a peacetime US record Gothmog Mar 2020 #42

Military budget for one delisen Mar 2020 #7

OK, so how much will these programs cost? Jersey Devil Mar 2020 #10

"I don't have to answer YOUR questions!" Grokenstein Mar 2020 #8

If you already have employer paid health insurance, why wouldn't your employer Meadowoak Mar 2020 #11

I have Medicare now and I have co pays Jersey Devil Mar 2020 #14

Sanders still won't be honest with the American people about how much his plans cost Gothmog Mar 2020 #43

By making the rich pay for it of course budkin Mar 2020 #18

Sounds good but you have to back it up with numbers - you can't just point at Daddy Warbucks Jersey Devil Mar 2020 #20

That is simply not a serious policy proposal Hav Mar 2020 #23

It works just fine in almost every other civilized nation budkin Mar 2020 #24

Yeah, it works by paying it with your taxes! Hav Mar 2020 #25

Obviously we would be paying for it through our taxes... but the rich would pay the bigger share budkin Mar 2020 #27

Nothing wrong with those who earn more paying more in absolute terms Hav Mar 2020 #28

No one ever said MFA would be free. guillaumeb Mar 2020 #26

Exactly budkin Mar 2020 #29

And that is silly, and could be seen as playing to the GOP line of attack. guillaumeb Mar 2020 #30

He makes it look like rich people can be taxed confiscatorily NYMinute Mar 2020 #31

If we go all 'FDR' on the rich, I think we can fund liberal programs. He did. pampango Mar 2020 #32

FDR did it in a depressed economy when the government's revenues had dwindled NYMinute Mar 2020 #33

FDR funded his programs when 'government revenues had dwindled'? pampango Mar 2020 #34

I didn't type that did I? NYMinute Mar 2020 #35

So the economy was nearly bankrupt and the government had not money for FDR. pampango Mar 2020 #36

Our economy is in deficit spending NYMinute Mar 2020 #37

"There is no extra money." I hope that is not Biden's mantra. pampango Mar 2020 #39

We are arguing in circles. NYMinute Mar 2020 #45

Here's how much a Bernie Sanders presidency would cost Gothmog Mar 2020 #41

As FDR said if people are suffering, try something. If that doesn't work try something else. pampango Mar 2020 #44

That does not work in the real world Gothmog Mar 2020 #46

He is not going to be president but, if he were elected with his well-known liberal policy pampango Mar 2020 #47

There is a reason why sanders has zero legislative accomplishments Gothmog Mar 2020 #48

We all know he is too liberal of a senator to get his ideas passed. pampango Mar 2020 #49

If sanders was the nominee, trump would win 45+ statews and Kevin McCarthy would be Speaker Gothmog Mar 2020 #50

I bow to your superior insight into the unelectability of Sanders. pampango Mar 2020 #51

Sanders has yet to explain how he'll pay for half of his agenda - Gothmog Mar 2020 #40

We're about to find out just how inadequate what passes dflprincess Mar 2020 #52