Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: How are you going to pay for it Bernie? [View all]Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)But there is clearly more to it, I concede. The most daunting is medicare for all which is 1.7 trillion per year. With that , you simply reallocate the tax structure In order to use the money we are already paying for healthcare (the ACA is 31 trillion over the.next 10 years). 17 trillion for medicare for all versus 31 trillion for yhe current system would in itself help dig us out of our debt. Taxing wall street speculqtion would also create more than 300 billion in itself in one year, far more than the 75 billion free college tuition would require. offshore incOme would be taxed for 1 trillion in infrastructure funding, paid leave by a .02 percent payroll tax, protect private pensions with a closed loopholes on estates. You are right, not everything is paid for by a simple progressive tax, but the additional taxes prove there is enough funding available from offshore accounts, estate loopholes closing, and small increases in payroll taxes, that hardly make funding the programs so daunting.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided