Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: How are you going to pay for it Bernie? [View all]Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)Large savings would come from the reduced costs of prescription drugs which are already price gouged to the extreme. The cuts would not need to be made to personnel salraies when they could still be made in the nickle and dime areas that the current syatem hits us the hardest with (prescription drugs for example)
Here is an article on taxing offshore accounts:
http://fortune.com/2016/03/11/sanders-trump-offshore-tax-havens/
This is what speculation is:
https://m.economictimes.com/definition/speculation
Tax on Wall Street speculation at 0.5 percent for stocks, 0.1 percent for bonds, and 0.005 percent for derivatives - generating $300 billion per year, more than enough to fund his Free College Plan.
I dont disagree some of us on the lower end will have to pay a little bit more, but not close to as much as sOme might think. And this is all assuming he doesnt get pushed by justice democrats In supportIng the 70% tax rates on income over 10 million, which would likely be the best case scenario in getting most programs paid for.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided