Sanders would raise your taxes by $14,130...
on 100k?!
in lots of cities that’s not a hefty income.
unless dems want to lose control of congress for a thousand years, he wouldn’t come close to getting this.
what a jerk!!
for a guy who’s never held a real job.
As a former government employee, and I don’t mean the military, that is solely dependent on the government for everything you have and eat. It is not hard to understand why you are afraid of change. But I assure you, it is going to be okay.
The concept of "paying for tax cuts" is profoundly illogical. Allowing taxpayers to keep more of their money requires no expenditure. What libs really mean to ask is this: how will the lost revenue be recovered? Essentially, they're frightened to death of the gov't cutting entitlement programs for the welfare leech class. Aka, the Democrat base.
The article is somewhat lacking in the understanding of economics and Trump’s proposals. Healthcare for instance-——http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=231191
“Cruz and Trump are offering tax cuts of extraordinary size — and they haven’t said a word about how they’ll pay for them.”
What a bizzarro statement very telling of the world we live in. It would seem more appropriate if the author would have said something like “Bernie is going to raise taxes on citizens by $14,130 without saying a word about how those people can afford to have that much money comfiscated from them”.
What’s additionally funny about Sander’s healthcare proposal is that the people of Vermont passed in 2012 a single-payer plan for the state that Sanders readily endorsed. Vermont scrapped the plan late last year as the cost was deemed excessively outrageous. In order for it to work they need monies from taxpayers of other states........sharing the pain.
From a related thread …
$765,645,000,000: FY2016 Taxes Set Record Through December; $5,107 Per Worker; Feds Still Run…
Four times the amount shown in thread title indicates an over $3 trillion annual federal budget. And we will probably never hear misguided Hillary Clinton mention the following major constitutional problem with an annual federal government budget that big.
Note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers. This is evidenced by the excerpt below.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, based on the Court’s statement above, here is a rough estimate of how much taxpayers should be paying Congress annually to perform its Section 8-limited power duties.
Given that the plurality of clauses in Section 8 deal with defense, and given that the Department of Defense budget for 2015 was $500+ billion, I will generously round up the $500+ billion figure to $1 trillion (but probably much less) as the annual price tag of the federal government to the taxpayers.
In other words, the corrupt media, including Obama guard dog Fx Noise, should not be reporting multi-trillion dollar annual federal budgets without mentioning the Supreme Court’s clarification of Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes in budget discussions.
Remember in November!
When patriots elect Trump, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, including putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Also consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Tax cuts do not have to be ‘paid for’ taxes are not the property of the government. Taxes are organized legal theft.
Lord, I hope a lot of people go to this Vox calculator during the generals. Ezra might have to take it down!
Clinton just wants the power and has made a deal with the elites to get it.
And that is why I am up at 1:30 am placing millions of dollars of real estate up for sale.
How scary are the times now?
Not waiting for a Trump or Cruz victory, since they are pounding the snot out of each other.
Gonna be Hill or Crazy ol Bernie.
How to pay for tax cuts?
What an idiot.
Cut the gov’t largesse, you dumb shiite .
Has it gotten through to them no one sane believes the “who’s going to pay for this tax cut” garbage anymore?
Ezra Kline was the originator of JournOlist back in 2007/08, which was made up of about 300 “reporters” and bloggers who were actively campaigning for 0bama. It was his bunch that savaged Palin throughout the election, and even after she returned to Alaska.
He is scum.