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lagomorph777

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14. The economy is being tanked out now. We just haven't seen the bill yet for the Billionaire Tax Cut.
Mon Feb 24, 2020, 10:54 AM
Feb 2020

Sanders' vision is to stop subsidizing the wealthy insurance companies and corporations, so mere mortals like you and I can keep more of the wealth that we have been sending upward.

I think health care is a good example. The insurance-company-funded talking heads on TV (even on "left-leaning" channels) talk endlessly about the tax cost of Medicare for all. They do that so we will pay no attention to the 35% HIGHER cost of the premiums/copays/coinsurance/nopays we deal with today. They want us to focus only on the tax cost, and forget that there is another, much larger cost on the other side of the balance sheet.

I think similar arguments can be made in the areas of education and other things.

The general idea is, take some of the trillions that the wealth-creators of this nation (you, me, and the rest of the middle-class and working-class) have generated, away from the billionaires who have been siphoning it off, and let it flow into the real economy again.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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