CNN Breaking News: Warren dances around whether taxes for middle class will go up regarding MFA

[Skya Rhen]

She is getting drilled by the commentators in her post debate interview...

[Cha]

1. Not sure why she doesn't come

straight out and say how her and BS' mfa will be paid for?

Wouldn't that be better than having all this kind of discussion about it?

[UniteFightBack]

5. She said it will be paid for by the folks who have 50 million plus...after the 50 million they pay

2 cents on the dollar I believe and that will pay for everything: free childcare, free education, M4A and eliminate student debt.

[Cha]

6. Thank you.. Best of Luck!

[emmaverybo]

10. Those plans are just for starters.

[Kahuna7]

27. Sounds pie-in-the-sky-ish to me. nt

[boomer_wv]

34. No way.

Is that going to pay for it all.

That's if she can even get it all passed. There aren't even the democratic votes to pass a bill that eliminates private insurance.

[peggysue2]

2. She's going to have to answer that question at some point

Warren has skirted the issue up until tonight. But the questions are not going away. I didn't listen to the post-debate interview but from what I read, Warren pretty much wedded herself to Medicare 4 All. If that's the case and the pivot that Harry Reid predicted doesn't come before Iowa, she will not be competitive for a General.

[Cha]

3. Oh yeah.. so she's not doing what

Harry Reid's predicted so far.

[Raine]

4. It's very frustrating when it's so

obvious she's continually doing everything to avoid a direct answer.

[Skittles]

7. it is ridiculous

she knows she is going to receive this question, yet thinks jumping around is the way to go about it?

[crazytown]

8. Taxes on the middle class will not rise (more than they save on health insurance premiums)

I'm sure that the team can figure out an appropriate form of words, that does not gibe the GOP a Mondale sound bite.

[marlakay]

11. What about if you have low premiums?

I am very lucky hubby worked for good union and we still have good healthcare with retirement.

I think many people who have employers who pay a good chunk of their insurance want to know what happens to us?

[emmaverybo]

16. Yes. And some in retirement pay no premiums and retirement benefits pay Medicare fee. Yes,

those in programs that vest are lucky, but the benefits are in lieu of better pay. These are not
bad plans either—no deductible, have a max out of pocket for drugs, drug costs mere dollars for prescriptions, yes pay cancer care, all screenings, even pay emergency and urgent care overseas.

[hay rick]

17. I am in the same fortunate situation but favor Medicare for All.

The employer pays a significant portion of the inflated price of insurance premiums. That cost is considered a part of employee compensation. It has a dollar value. The same goes for employer contributions to pensions and social security. The more money the employer agrees to spend on benefits, the less the employer is willing or able to spend on wages.

[UniteFightBack]

18. True. I pay very little with no deductables. My job will pay for my healthcare when I retire too.nt

[emmaverybo]

9. Still would not say. Her lack of a direct answer gives the appearance of playing games with voters,

which I am sure she does not intend to do. Maybe just wants to get folks on board and figure out how to pay later? She mentioned “several streams of revenue.”

Which? Wealth tax? Revenue saved from rolling back Republican tax giveaways? Maybe she is giving herself room to re-evaluate, though when asked if she would come up with her own plan as distinct from Bernie’s she reiterated that M4All is THE plan.

[hay rick]

12. Good for her. She isn't playing their gotcha game.

The moderators were trolling for a yes or no answer to the question of whether taxes would be raised to support Medicare for All. That question is not part of a constructive debate on the subject. A constructive discussion would be about reducing overall healthcare costs. If the total cost of healthcare is reduced by raising the portion paid for by taxes while cutting the portion paid by co-pays, deductibles, and premiums- a rational society should demand it. Most other advanced societies do and their costs are little more than half ours. And they live longer lives.

The moderators and commentators are prostituting themselves on this issue.

[BlueMTexpat]

32. This.

Too many - generally supporters of other candidates - find this tactic frustrating.

So, so frustrating! Oh my!

[ritapria]

13. This is Warren's one mistake in an otherise Flawless Campaign

She needs to own up to the fact that taxes will have to go up to finance MFA …… ..The evasion gives her the look of traditional pol in an era where people want straight talk …...

[OnDoutside]

22. She can't because it is a vote loser. What's crazy is that fixing the

ACA, plus a public option and lower prescription drugs, would be a huge step beyond Republicans and still extremely popular.

[JCMach1]

14. The Biden mansplaining moment will be the debate's

Takaway... CNN, as usual, isn't paying attention

[OnDoutside]

23. Mansplaining versus a big tax increase, yeah CNN missed it alright...

[BlueMTexpat]

33. Believe me,

others have paid attention!

It's beginning to reverberate, based on what I'm seeing and hearing.

[Skya Rhen]

15. Not a good look for her, yet she is determined to refuse to concede to what is evident. What does

one call this type of behavior?

[emmaverybo]

19. Coy? I don't like it whatever it is. I can see not answering at risk of feeding malice, rumor mill,

gotchas on guilt by association or something said fifty years ago, but this is a concrete plan with
concrete costs, a centerpiece of her candidacy...

She has had ample time to explain costs and benefits succinctly. Then let the voter decide.

[Skya Rhen]

20. That's the word - "coy". Thanks.

[Thekaspervote]

21. And one would hope a person that rises to the level of senate let alone prez would be past "coy."

[Lordquinton]

24. Good, it's a dishonest question

One that republicans like to push, and we shouldn't be encouraging right wing attacks on our candidates.

[elias7]

25. It's a gotcha question and any answer will be used against her

A terrible way to open the debate

[OrlandoDem2]

26. If she wins the nomination this issue will cost Democrat's the White House. Nt

[obamanut2012]

29. lololololol

[OrlandoDem2]

30. Taxes crushed Mondale and GHWB. Evading the question will make it look like she's hiding something.

People will assume their taxes will go up and vote against her.

[janterry]

28. She didn't, people are looking for sound bites

shame on us. This is the kind of stupidity that elected trump

[loyalsister]

31. Exactly

We have also foolishly accepted a premise that all taxes are bad. Our anti-tax mentality reflects an irrational sense of entitlement that both parties have catered to for way too long.
I get why she ducks it- or has been told to, but I more than that, I resent that the candidates still buy into the GOP conventional wisdom that it is good politics to enable the destructive and faulty idea that all taxes are a bad thing.