Posted on 04/13/2019 7:34:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist senator from Vermont, is a fierce critic of the affluent in America. That’s a bit rich, considering he himself is well off.
Sanders, 77, has, in fact, amassed an estimated $2.5 million fortune from real estate, investments, government pensions—and earnings from three books, including the 2016 hit Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In. “I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” he recently told the New York Times, striking a downright Trumpian note.
Since his bid for the Democratic nomination raised his profile in 2016, Sanders has released a book a year. In all, he has pulled in at least $1.7 million from the series, starting with Our Revolution (220,000 copies sold, according to industry tracker NPD BookScan) and then Bernie Sanders Guide to Political Revolution (27,000) and finally Where We Go From Here: Two Years in the Resistance (26,000).
In addition to the books are his government pay and pension accounts. Sanders has collected a six-figure annual salary since he joined Congress in 1991, some of which he and his wife (who herself commanded hefty pay as head of now-defunct Burlington College) plowed into personal real estate. Then there are his pensions, which are based on income and years of service. With 28 years in office and a current salary of $174,000, Sanders is entitled to around $73,000 a year from the federal government for the rest of his life. If he were to sell that guaranteed income stream for a lump-sum pile of cash, Forbes figures he could get around $650,000 for it.
Before he was elected to Congress, Sanders ran a small business producing filmstrips on New England history for schools and served as mayor of Burlington, Vermont.
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“I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,”
If Trump said that about Anything, forget about it.
Which is the real reason half these losers are running for Dem president. Make a splash in a debate and write a book. For many of them it's a pre-sales tour.
If by some mistake you get elected, write a bigger book.
How can a man sell his retirement, when he is at the limit for his age. 78 is what the actuarial tables say he will reach, and he is 77. $650K is a horrible investment if he has to live 8-10 more years.
““I wrote a best-selling book. If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,”
and being a hard-core socialist, how come you didnt distribute that million dollars like a good commie pinko?
A best selling book that sold 95% of the copies to one buyer as a hidden bribe to Bernie.
His wife dabbles in bank fraud as a hobby for one thing.
Actuarial tables say he’ll probably live about 10 more years.
Channeling BHO: “You didn’t write that book....”
Capitalist pig!
Three books totaling 250,000 copies sold is NOT a best selling author. $1.7m for 250,000 copies sold sounds like a massive advance (money laundering) for something that resulted in a flop.
$2.5 million is not a fortune or even close.
Or so I have heard.
Fraud runs in the family. His wife does bank fraud - Bernie does political fraud, with his agreement to support Hillary (who represented so many things he was campaigning against and who had defrauded him in the Democrat primaries).
If Bernie were for real, he would never have agreed to betray his supporters, who believed in him, and support Hillary, in return for an airplane and a third house.
Bernie is a greedy grifter who will do and say anything to advance what he perceives to be his interests.
I wonder how much money Sanders gave to charity.
“Three books totaling 250,000 copies sold is NOT a best selling author. $1.7m for 250,000 copies sold sounds like a massive advance (money laundering) for something that resulted in a flop”.
The same with the Clintons. Money laundering is an art for them.
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