Nettles said:
Everyone pays higher tax under Sanders and yet his numbers still don't add up. Read this : http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-02/why-bernie-sanders-has-raise-taxes-middle-class |
The people who wrote that apparently didn't read Bernie's tax plans. the extra tax relatvie to income to cover healthcare will be paid by employees, not employers. And even your link admits that that is the biggest proportion of extra taxes. Now sure, yes, that will come at a slight expense to people's wages as well, but you are ignoring how much money people won't have to spend due to services being free or largely so. The average American household spends shittonnes on healthcare, doesn't really matter if that is paid through taxes or through normal bills, you pay the money either way. The difference is that this way you won't have to risk people slowly dying because they can't afford health insurance, etc.
Furthermore, people will save money on college, because community colleges will be free, and student debt will be easier to repay due to interest reform. So sure, people might pay more in taxes, but they'll pay a lot less in outside costs. I could find more examples on this. At the same time, ultra rich will bear proportionately more of the load than poor, and some important ways are closing stupid tax loopholes that corporations are using to hide money from the IRS.
As for some of his most expensive, they are neccesary either way (ie. infrastructure rebuilding). It's just that Bernie is the only one that isn't too much of a coward to adress it. Reality is that the US is getting to the point where maintaining their old infrastructure is becoming substantially more expensive than renewing it, so it has to be done. Wouldn't you want a president that actually recognizes that? Also renewing infrastructure has pretty much unanimously given strong economic returns, so with a long term perspective, the Us will end up making money on that.
