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W. Post’s Greg Sargent rebuts WSJ tally of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ spending plans:
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W. Post’s Greg Sargent rebuts WSJ tally of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ spending plans:
“The big policy headline today comes from the Wall Street Journal, which delivers this alarming message: ‘Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’ Proposals: $18 Trillion’ … [But] almost all of it is on things we’re already paying for; he just wants to change how we pay for them … $15 trillion of it comes not from an analysis of anything Sanders has proposed, but from the fact that Sanders has said he’d like to see a single-payer health insurance system …”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/09/15/no-bernie-sanders-is-not-going-to-bankrupt-america-to-the-tune-of-18-trillion/
