As a long time supporter of Sanders, I thought that I was prepared for the display of opposition & propaganda that would accompany his decision to participate in 2016 Election. But I really wasn't prepared for the kind of dishonesty & abuse of power that I have observed. One of the many elements launched by the opposition of Sander's candidacy is is the overtly biased & manipulated media/press coverage to either discredit or dismiss Sanders & his primary focus on the massive problem of wealth inequality in The US.
Media Ignores Bernie Sanders Maine Blowout
https://www.tytnetwork.com/2016/03/07/media-ignores-bernie-sanders-maine-blowout/
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Breaking: TV News Doesn’t Want To Inform You
https://www.tytnetwork.com/2016/03/08/tv-news-doesnt-want-inform/
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Bernie Sanders Confronts Alan Greenspan 2003
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJaW32ZTyKE
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However,I already understand the perceptions held by certain individuals on this forum. Whether those perceptions are correct or incorrect can only be ascertained in the future as to whether there are notable improvements validating or negating these closely held "opinions" of others.
So, in the words of my dearly departed mother[r.i.p.], "If you can't say something nice[or inoffensive]; then say nothing at all..."
I will also confess to the fact that for many years of my childhood; I remained silent.
Thank you.
what's there to inform on that Commie,other than he is a Commie!
http://www.thefederalistpapers.org/political-cartoon/bernie-sanders-campaign-strategy-summed-up-with-one-cartoon
Via Robert Gehl:
Bernie Sanders tax increases are so huge, it practically broke the analysts’ calculators
At more than $15 trillion, the Sanders tax increases are so massive, they actually challenged forecasters’ ability to calculate them.
One of the taboos in politics is taxes. Every policy, every program a candidate proposes has to be paid for and ultimately the American people pay for it.
Hillary Clinton’s plan will raise taxes by $1 trillion. She hasn’t spelled out how “lower- and middle-income families” will get a tax cut, but promised to tell us a little later. Yeah, right.
But Hillary is a piker when it comes to tax increases compared to Bernie Sanders.
Under a President Sanders, taxes will increase by $15.3 trillion dollars. On everyone.
The very wealthy will get a massive soaking – with his proposed taxes for the top one-tenth of one percent cutting after-tax incomes in half. But nobody gets away from Bernie’s taxman.
The middle class would be smacked with a $4,700 tax increase. Even the lowest-income households would pay $165 more, according to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center
None of this is a secret. The Sanders campaign doesn’t dispute any of the numbers. Sanders himself has said time and time again that he’ll raise taxes on everyone.
“There is a very, very clear choice,” said Len Burman, head of the non-partisan Tax Policy Center. “They really couldn’t be more different.”
“Bernie Sanders is very open about raising taxes on everybody, with the argument that people at all income levels are going to be benefiting from the new spending programs that he’s proposing,” Burman said.
Where is Sanders going to spend all this money? Mostly on health care, but he also wants to pay for free college tuition, paid family and medical leave, infrastructure spending and a host of other programs. Politico reports:
Sanders is a rare presidential candidate in either party who is willing to spell out in detail how he’d finance his legislative agenda. By contrast, the Republican candidates have proposed tax-reform plans that would cost trillions, saying they would be financed by thus-far unspecified spending cuts and economic growth.
In all, Sanders has proposed more than two dozen separate tax increases, the report shows, and in every major class of taxes.
He’s called for multiple increases in the income taxes paid by individual Americans that would push the top rate to 54 percent, from the current 39.6 percent.
At the same time, Sanders would create and expand payroll taxes. He’s proposed a new 6.2 percent tax on employers as well as an additional 0.2 percent payroll tax on both employers and their workers. He would also apply the current 12.4 percent Social Security tax to incomes over $250,000.
Corporate taxes would go up, mostly by going after multinational corporations using accounting maneuvers to slice their tax bills. Sanders would end so-called deferral, which allows companies to postpone paying taxes on overseas profits; target tax-advantaged corporate inversions; and place new limits on the credits companies receive for paying taxes in other countries.
Sanders would almost triple capital gains taxes to 64 percent, a level unseen since World War I. At the same time, he would shut off ways the wealthy have long used to avoid paying the tax, such as “stepped up basis at death,” which allows them to pass assets onto heirs tax free.
And he would create two big new excise taxes, including a carbon tax, the first time that’s been proposed by a major presidential candidate.
Sanders would charge $15 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions in 2017, with the fee ramping up to $73 per ton by 2035. That would raise $900 billion over the next decade, after accounting for rebates he would give to middle- and low-income people who presumably would be hit with higher energy prices, the Tax Policy Center said.
He would also create a new financial transaction tax that would charge 0.5 percent on stock sales. That would produce an additional $692 billion, according to the analysis.
The top 1 percent of earners would bear 38 percent of the total tax increase proposed by Sanders, according to the analysis, while those in the top fifth of incomes would pay 68 percent of his levies.
That top quintile, which includes those earning more than $142,000, would see its taxes go up by an average $44,759. Those at the very bottom of the income ladder would see their taxes go up by $165 while those in the second quintile of incomes — between $23,000 and $45,000 — would pay an additional $1,625.
Many of Sanders’s tax increases are so big and novel that it tested the ability of the Tax Policy Center to predict their likely effects.
“It was a difficult estimating task,” said Frank Sammartino, a senior fellow at the group. “For changes of this magnitude, we’re really going into unknown territory.”
Anybody looking for a difference between a “Democrat” and a “Socialist” can stop here. When Democrats talk about taxes, they claim they’re trying to shield the middle class and lower from tax increases. Socialists make no distinction. Everybody pays. And everybody pays more.
