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Bernie Sanders: A 90% tax rate sounds fine to me
Hotair ^ | 05/26/2015 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 05/26/2015 1:11:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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21 posted on 05/26/2015 1:25:28 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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Bernie is the only honest progressive Marxist. Punks like Obama and McConnell lie about it.


22 posted on 05/26/2015 1:26:09 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This crazy old communist nut job belongs in a mental ward.


23 posted on 05/26/2015 1:28:02 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The so-called Southern Poverty Law Center is a hate group.)
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To: SeekAndFind

FDR wanted a 100% top tax rate. It was his way of instituting a maximum wage in addition to a minimum wage.

91% was the result of compromise with Republicans.


24 posted on 05/26/2015 1:28:21 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I don’t see anything like honesty in Sanders just because he openly preaches socialism.

More like raw arrogance, and the self-absorbed certainty that he’s right while everyone else is wrong.


25 posted on 05/26/2015 1:32:44 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Why stop at 90% Bernie? Why not 100% or 110% or 125%? Why do we give these fools the time of day, let alone elect them to office?


26 posted on 05/26/2015 1:33:40 PM PDT by anoldafvet (Why is it when Hillary "smiles" , I am reminded of a grinning shark?)
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Why stop at 90% Bernie? Why not 100% or 110% or 125%? Why do we give these fools the time of day, let alone elect them to office?


27 posted on 05/26/2015 1:33:42 PM PDT by anoldafvet (Why is it when Hillary "smiles" , I am reminded of a grinning shark?)
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Put a little box on your tax return which asks you if you want to give more. See how many do.

They actually did this in Massachusetts back in 2005. When they lowered the state tax rate from 5.85% to 5.00%, all the bleeding heart liberals kicked and screamed. So they put a checkbox on the tax form for all the bleeding-heart liberals to pay at the higher rate, if they so chose.

Again, we are only talking an additional 0.85%, which on an annual salary of $50,000 a year, would amount to $425 in additional taxes - or about $8.17 a week.

All the bleeding hearts had to do was go without a couple of frappuccinos at Starbucks each week.

Want to take a bet on how many of the three and a half million taxpayers in Massachusetts elected the higher rate?

1,162.

Or 0.000332%, in case your calculator doesn't have that many decimal places.

The following year (2006), the number of people signing up to pay the higher tax dropped to 424.

28 posted on 05/26/2015 1:34:26 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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I think it is neat that the democrats finally get a candidate that is an avowed communist;

One that doesn’t even pretend to think that capitalism (tempered with a little socialism of course) might be a good idea.


29 posted on 05/26/2015 1:35:43 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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Does Bernie return 90% of his taxpayer-funded salary to the US Treasury? If not, why not?


30 posted on 05/26/2015 1:36:03 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: SeekAndFind

When even the French people blanched at the imposition of the 75% tax rate, Bernie Sanders’ suggestion of a 90% tax rate won’t fly even in the Democratic Party.


31 posted on 05/26/2015 1:36:33 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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90%...only 90%, Bernie? Why not 95% for all effective January 20, 1981? That would be great...

Oh by the way,except for Burlington, Bennington, Rutland, Barre, Montpelier and Brattleboro..most citizens hate this nutcase. Visit a small town in Vermont and you'll see conservative people...

32 posted on 05/26/2015 1:55:18 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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At least Bernie Sanders is honest about making you a slave of the state.

5.56mm


33 posted on 05/26/2015 2:03:16 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
This comes as no surprise -- but has ANY so-called journalist grilled Sanders, O'Malley, or DeBlasio about the Clinton Cash scandal, or Benghazi, or what they actually think about anything to do with the alleged front-runner? I didn't think so. Partisan Media Shills ping. Thanks SeekAndFind.

34 posted on 05/26/2015 2:11:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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I never realized Republican former General Dwight David Eisenhower was a radical socialist!


35 posted on 05/26/2015 2:17:51 PM PDT by sargon
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I never realized Republican former General Dwight David Eisenhower was a radical socialist!


36 posted on 05/26/2015 2:18:19 PM PDT by sargon
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He’s willing to have the government come and take ninety cents out of every dollar you earn if you commit the sin of being too successful in modern America.

You know that's not how it works, right?

37 posted on 05/26/2015 2:23:44 PM PDT by Wolfie
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Well Bernie anyone looking to destroy a Nation would agree with you. A 90 percent rate is a good thing. Now be a good little communist and go home.............


38 posted on 05/26/2015 2:24:30 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: SeekAndFind

As long as it doesn’t apply to Bernie and his buddies.

But the reality is 90 percent is way too low for the likes of Sanders. They’d like to see that at least ten percentage points higher — maybe even more. Across the board.

They think we’re their property.


39 posted on 05/26/2015 2:24:36 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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I was shocked to learn he is not yet 74! I thought he was well into his 80s.

Well, senility hits some people at younger ages than others.

40 posted on 05/26/2015 2:26:12 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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