Ken Berwitz
1) He is currently the most desirable alternative to Hillary Clinton, whose recent poll numbers make the Titanic look like a flotation device by comparison.2) He is a socialist. And, whether a lot of them realize it or not, a great many Democrats have, gradually over the years, been taken, step by step, towards support of a European-style socialist state. (This is why DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, when asked on two different occasions in the past several weeks, could not describe the difference between the Democrat Party and socialism).
In fairness, candidates for the presidency make a lot of proposals, knowing that only some – maybe only a few – will ever come to fruition. I doubt Mr. Sanders believes that all this money would wind up being spent.On the other hand, Bernie Sanders is a self-professed socialist, whose answer to wild-eyed spending like that is to get the money from people who earn money – and the more the merrier from “the rich” (a term which is rarely defined). So maybe he does believe all the money would be spent.
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wantsseveral guarantees for America\’s middle class, including free tuition at publicuniversities and health care available to everyone. Those programs, accordingto an estimate by the Wall Street Journal, could cost the nation up to $18trillion.
But in an interview on “CBS This Morning,” Sandersdefended his campaign goals and fired back at the Wall Street Journal, sayingthat paying for his plans will hinge on holding the wealthiest Americansaccountable.
“We are going to ask the wealthiest people in thiscountry who are doing phenomenally well, and many large corporations that aremaking billions of dollars of profits and not paying a nickel in taxes, to infact start paying their fair share of taxes,” Sanders said early Friday.
When pressed if that meant he would tax the highest incomebracket at 90 percent to pay for his proposals, Sanders responded that hedidn\’t believe that was necessary.”I don\’t think you have to go up to 90percent,” the Vermont senator said.
