by Jake Dima
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders acknowledged a tax increase from his policies and said Americans would be “delighted” to pay extra, in a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper Wednesday.
“I suspect that a lot of people in this country would be delighted to pay more in taxes if they had comprehensive health care as a human right,” Sanders said. The Vermont senator also went on to tell Cooper that he bases his principles on his 50-mile proximity to the Canadian border, where universal health care is law.
What Sanders did not include in his statement was the cost of his programs. The Mercatus Center at George Mason University released a study in 2018 saying Americans can estimate to foot a $32.6 trillion bill over a 10-year period for “Medicare for All,” Fox News reported. Sanders has also omitted cost information on his campaign website.
The 10-year cost breaks down to $3.26 trillion per year, according to the report. The current U.S. federal budget stands around $4.7 trillion.
Sanders also told Cooper Wednesday that housing, retirement, education and a clean environment are among his staples of “human rights.” President Donald Trump was a subject of discussion in the interview too.
Sanders called Trump a “corporate socialist” because of his “tax breaks to the wealthy.” He also chastised corporations seeking bailouts because of their “greed” and “illegal activity.”
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Jake Dima is a reporter for the Daily Caller News Foundation. Follow Jake on Twitter.
I would be delighted to pay extra to send Bernie, the other Dem presidential candidates, and a large contingent of leftist media, “entertainers”, and elites on a one-way trip to an uninhabited (or lightly inhabited) Pacific island where they could live out their socialist/communist/totalitarian fantasies with like-minded comrades. Although tempting, I wouldn’t want to send this mob to, say, North Korea or Venezuela because those citizens already greatly suffer under their current regimes. Bernie would surely agree with offering any existing inhabitants of the selected island free travel and a generous lifetime stipend to live anywhere they wanted to go.
“Sanders: Socialism Will Spike Taxes, But Americans Will Be ‘Delighted’ to Pay Extra”
Crazy old communist!
sURE, THAT IS THE REASON YOU WERE ELECTED THE LAST TIME YOU RAN. iDIOT.
More control of our lives by the federal government must not be allowed to happen. Socialism is a dead end ideology that continues to fail globally.