Posted on 05/19/2015 9:31:47 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Bernie Sanders, the Democratic presidential candidate and self-proclaimed socialist who wants the United States to morph into a vast Scandinavia, is holding a Tuesday press conference to explain how he will soak the rich to make tuition at public, four-year colleges and universities free.
Sanders will propose legislation to fund his free-college scheme with massive new taxes on stock transactions, Bloomberg reports.
The Vermont senator’s bill, if passed, would add a 50-cent tax for every “$100 of stock trades on stock sales, and lesser amounts on transactions involving bonds, derivatives, and other financial instruments,” according to a press release
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Like Dems haven't done enough to wreck the Middle Class?
It has no chance of passing in this Congress, but it is just a taste of what is coming, folks.
Does Bernie wants to chase wealth in the USA to see how far it will run away?
Nothing is ever more expensive than when it’s “free”.
Well, I’d like a huge Sheriff of Nottingham college endowment wealth tax to make small business start-ups tax free. :)
Bad enough we’re paying through the nose for High school...and the graduation rate is less than 50%. Now do you want me to tell you the demographics of those schools?
We already have the free bread, when do the circuses start up? Have the Boston Marathon bomber fight to the death with Lee Boyd Malvo.
Actually, making college free for QUALIFIED applicants might work.
However, the word QUALIFIED would eliminate 99.999999% of the lib arts students, and even some of the quota STEM types.
Too many colleges, too little intellect.
So he wants to rob the gubmint to give back to the middle class? Great idea!
TNSTAAFL...................Robert Heinlein...................
Too bad a moon rock won’t drop on Bernie.
The great irony of people like Bernie Sanders and Bill De Blasio - they are going to use the power of the progressive/left welfare state to make inequality even worse.
Socialism is always and everywhere political corruption and economic cronyism.
When liberals are not in power, they are funny.
When they are in power they are dangerous.........................
Robin Hood fought against high taxes.
Are we really going to elect a man who’s so ignorant he can’t even get his fairy tales right?
If i recall it was the government that got rich taxing the people.
A person does not need government power to “give”...they need it to “take”...anyone that tells you different is a liar and a thief
If you think that an American company is looking out for the best interests of Americans, or American workers, you are sadly mistaken.
If you think that you can compete with third world labor, you are sadly mistaken.
If you think that you are immune from outsourcing, or that you cannot be replaced by a foreign national, you're whistling past the graveyard.
As long as there are people in the world who will do your job cheaper than what you will do it for, and as long there are people in the world who will exploit that fact for all that it is worth, no job, no knowledge, or no economy is safe.
It's a looter's and barbarian's world now. Get used to it, or you will either succeed, or get killed.
Bernie Sanders is my Comrade; I shall not want.
Robin Hood did not steal from the rich to give to the poor like the liberals are wont to say. He stole from tax collectors and gave those taxes back to the people.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need!
College is a bad investment for many kids these days. I would sooner buy my kid a laundromat for $250,000, that throws off $10,000 to $12,000 a month.
I propose a per-capita tax on Vermont, for giving us this loon and his fellow loons like Howard the Scream!
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