Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has announced plans for a new tax that’s going to reach into the pocket of every single American.
Sanders, according to a recent interview, thinks it’s high time that America started to look more like Europe.
In order to pay for his ambitious, government-run maternity plan that Sanders says all the European countries already have, he has promised to raise the payroll taxes that every American pays.
That means that, in a Sanders presidency, your paychecks would take a hit almost immediately. And that’s just the first new tax.
“I think if you are looking about guaranteeing paid family and medical leave, which every other major country has so that when a mom gives birth she doesn’t have to go back to work in two weeks. Dad or mom can stay home with the kids. That will require a small increase in the payroll tax,” Sanders admitted in an interview with ABC’s “This Week”.
Stephanopoulos said, “That’s going to hit everybody.”
“That would hit everybody, yeah,” Sanders agreed.
At least this nut admits he is going to take more money from working people to give to non productive bums.
All the democrats live by this mantra, they just can’t buy votes any other way.
We are spending too much money ,in foreign aid ,lets stop that and we will get billion ,lets stop too many expenses ,specially the biggest spenders in our budget the ARMED FORCES ,we are not at war for ourselves , we are always fighting for religious wars for someone else ,and I ask cam we stop that? I do not think so because we do govren oursels we are completly controlled from LONDON ,weather we liked or not ,the Bilderberg Group have complete dominance over the WORLD
It’s a shame that a candidate for public office, especially a legislative office, cannot state that he will attempt to raise taxes on virtually every American, without destroying his/her chances of being elected. There is no known way to man to provide everything a socialist wants his “subjects” to have, because that’s what they demand, without taxing the hell out of them. One doesn’t even need to have the knowledge a diploma from grade school represents to be able to comprehend this phenomenom.l. Every representative democracy in history has eventually imploded (caved-in on itself) when the public treasury has greater obligations (expenses) than it can generate from taxes (income). It’s exactly the same financial situation we experience in our personal household budgets when we are powerless to control our spending and our contractual obligations exceed our pay checks. The only solution is to cut out everything the other guys are getting from the public treasury, but leave ours alone.
Bernie is telling the truth – the rest are just a bunch of words on a page. /
He wants to tax the rich. I am confused by you conservatives….you speak so much of the Bible, which tells us to build up our riches in the kingdom of heaven, and not on earth. You also speak of the degeneration of morals and family values. Why in the world would you not support bonding time for a new mother/family?
I support bonding time for new mother and family. I don’t support paying for it. That would be the new mother and family’s responsibility and their choice. Paid leave is a benefit not a moral or a family value. Morals don’t come with a price tag.
Sounds to me that Bernie wants to tax everyone. ..so yes, you are confused.
If we want to be exceptional as we claim we are , we should start acting like it and doing the things that an exceptional nation would and should do for it’s people. Bernie Sanders is merely pointing out that we could easily do these things. We should get off our arses and start doing them. It’s a choice. We certainly have plenty of money to still subsidize oil, nuclear, coal, big agra, big pharma and on and on. We always have the credit card ready for war and the ever looming defense budget. We have these black hole budgets for national security so that they can spy on us and overthrow governments. It’s not that complicated. We even have $2T missing from the Iraq war. Wouldn’t ypu like to know what happened to the $2Trillions. There was a time, that many of you think you’d like to bring back America to, when we built a robust middle class, one that became the envy of the world, and at that time the tax on the wealthy was at 93%. They had a choice, reinvest in your companies or pay the tax. That was also a very stable time. The rich didn’t go nuts and speculate and blow up the economy. We need to go back to that. We also need to stop spewing out lies about socialism like it’s communism. The most successful industrial country today is Germany and it is a Social Democracy. Stop the fear mongering. We are partly a Social Democracy. We have Medicare, the VA, the Military, these are all Social Democratic programs. We should be proud of this and we should make them even better. When the 1% and the large corporations, who don’t hardly pay taxes anymore and hide their profits off shore, keep blowing up the economy and won’t hire workers or pay them a fair living wage, then it’s time for the govt to step in just like FDR did. We need a new FDR and that is who Bernie Sanders is for us today.
Bernie is like all socialists. He thinks he can do a better job managing your money than you can. A Bernie Sanders presidency would lead to a less productive America and a poorer America. Why will productive people want to work hard if they are going to have most of their money go to support the lazy and unproductive?
Bernie’s idea of utopia is the former Soviet Union. The Soviets tried for decades to make their system work. If you think that system was good look for Soviet era cars and stores. The few cars on the road looked cheap and outdated. Most store shelves were bare. Russians have tried to discard much of their Soviet past. Unfortunately Bernie wants to implement it here.
I read that Sanders wants to implement a 90% tax increase…..That would leave you with a mere 10% of your paycheck. Now just how do you Lib”s expect anyone to live on 10% of their income….UNBELIEVABLE !!!
Well, he’s gonna raise the minimum wage to $15/hour, or something like that. Let’s see, $15 x 10% x 8 hours = (wow!) $12 a day. Of course, this assumes an 8 hour day which most don’t get. We can always eat off the 99 cent menu. Of course, that’ll be limited to small fries and drinks and something called “where’s the beef?”. And it’ll be more like the $1.99 menu.
Bernie, try to remember Walter Mondale. He said taxes would be raised. Whatever happened to Walter?