Who's promising unicorns, Bernie or Hillary? Family Leave and Free Tuition
At https://berniesanders.com/issues/how-bernie-pays-for-his-proposals/
Bernie says that his 4-year free tuition public college plan will cost $75 billion a year. He says it will be paid for (and then some) by a Wall Street transaction tax, which will bring in $300 billion a year, and then he links to details about how such a tax would work and where the figures come from.
while at https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/college/
Hillary says that her 2-year free tuition community college plan will cost around $35 billion a year (actually listed as $350 billion over 10 years) and will be paid for by "limiting certain tax expenditures for high-income taxpayers" - that's all, no further detail provided. (As an aside, I assume she means limiting certain deductions, since further limiting their tax expenditures would have the opposite of the desired effect.)
Similarly...
At that same Bernie page (where unlike Hillary, he conveniently lays out in one place how each of his major programs will be paid for), he shows that family and medical leave is paid for by an increase in the payroll tax, and links to details of the plan (Gillebrand's bill).
Meanwhile at https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/paid-leave/ she says that her family and medical leave program will be paid for again by unspecified "tax reforms impacting the most fortunate."
Bernie explains exactly how he will pay for his proposals. Hillary just says that there will be tax changes affecting the wealthy, without saying what they might be.
So who is proposing all kinds of things that sound good, with no details about how to pay for them?
