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Bernie Sanders unveils new plan for free child care, pre-K up to age four, funded by wealth tax
Fox News ^ | February 23, 2020 | Vandana Rambaran

Posted on 02/23/2020 7:02:50 PM PST by karpov

Presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., unveiled a new plan for universal child care if he is elected in November, saying in an interview airing Sunday that a wealth tax would pay for it.

The proposal would offer free child care from infancy to pre-kindergarten up to the age of four, Sanders told Anderson Cooper on CBS News' "60 Minutes."

The idea was yet another in a slew of progressive plans laid out by the self-proclaimed democratic-socialist, plans that he said would be funded by increased taxation on America's wealthy.

Sanders expressed his disdain for opponents -- even some within his own party running against him for the presidential nomination -- who have expressed skepticism at the possibility that enough funding existed for all of his ideas, which also included "Medicare-for-all," free college tuition and eliminating student debt.

"I get a little bit tired of hearing my opponents saying-- 'Gee, how you going to pay for a program that impacts and helps children or working-class families or middle-class families? How you going to pay for that?'" Sanders said. "And yet, where are people saying, 'How are you going to pay for over $750 billion on military spending?' How you going to pay for a trillion dollars in tax breaks to the one-percent in large corporations, which was what Trump did? When you help the billionaires and you help Wall Street, 'Hey! Of course we can pay for it. That's what America's supposed to be about.' Well, I disagree."

Although Sanders would not put a dollar amount to each of his proposals, he said he was confident that the funding existed to put them into place if he's elected in November.

"Obviously, those are expensive propositions, but we have done our best on issue after issue-- in paying for them,"

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bernie; berniesanders; prek; sanders; taxes; theft; universalprek; wealthtax
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Quoting Marx and Engels:

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.

The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.

1 posted on 02/23/2020 7:02:50 PM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

The NEA is on board with you, Burn.


2 posted on 02/23/2020 7:04:50 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If you don't recognize that as sarcasm you are dumber than a bag of hammers.)
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To: karpov

What’s he going to do when he runs out of EVERYONE else’s money???


3 posted on 02/23/2020 7:06:03 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas (January 20, 2017, High Noon. The end of an error.)
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To: karpov

All your children are belong to Bernie


4 posted on 02/23/2020 7:06:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: karpov
How many jobs will that kill? What happens to the markets as that money is
vacuumed out of the economy and jobs drop, income tax revenues drop,
people get back on welfare and food stamps, unemployment numbers go up?

Leftists and their unintended consequences, they never pay for it, and
when someone comes around like a Trump and fixes things, they'll just
demand we return to the climate of their insanity.

5 posted on 02/23/2020 7:08:00 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The DNC has a taxidermist on speed dial for Nancy, Hillary, and Ruth.)
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To: BenLurkin

I guess that will make surgical transitions at an early age easier.


6 posted on 02/23/2020 7:11:05 PM PST by cnsmom
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To: karpov

The Democrat party is run by wealthy lib gentry types who want to make more money and keep what they have. They deserve to pay more I hope they are satisfied with what their party is becoming. This puts them in a real bind. And as far as those passive do nothing country club Republicans. They may want to think twice about open borders that are designed to make the Democrat party the dominate party. They may also want to buy some media outlets instead of just sitting there with both thumbs up their a__es.


7 posted on 02/23/2020 7:11:21 PM PST by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: karpov

Oh God save us. The Sovietization of childhood.


8 posted on 02/23/2020 7:12:03 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("Socialism is Communism in its larval form." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Which would be about 30 days after he tool office


9 posted on 02/23/2020 7:15:10 PM PST by digger48
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To: amnestynone

The utter contempt the ruling class has for the Constitution and everyday Americans is beyond description


10 posted on 02/23/2020 7:15:31 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: karpov

And it’ll be paid for by our bosses, landlords, bankers, investors, etc. so we won’t have to pay!

Funny how tariffs are the only government cost that the media will say is paid by consumers.
Every other government cost to business is FREE!


11 posted on 02/23/2020 7:18:07 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts (M / F) : Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Oscar in Batangas

Next up free PET CARE and Food for your pets.


12 posted on 02/23/2020 7:21:31 PM PST by Engedi (ui)
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To: Engedi

Joke all you want....this is, sadly, the kind of cr@p that millennials and low IQ folks love to hear about, and hitch their wagons to.


13 posted on 02/23/2020 7:22:49 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.cuase)
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To: amnestynone

And Bernie’s WEALTH TAX, won’t hit them? Will it only hit the GOP wealthy then? And what is the level that this tax, which will supposedly pay for everything, to be set at? You can bet it also hits people who are not gigantically rich!


14 posted on 02/23/2020 7:23:23 PM PST by nopardons
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To: karpov

Indoctrination centers...


15 posted on 02/23/2020 7:25:44 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: karpov

And while Bernie read a book on Marx


16 posted on 02/23/2020 7:26:03 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat (Guns up . . . We cominÂ’ PS: Eric The Blower CIAramella. PASS IT ON)
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To: karpov

Comrade Bernie makin a play for suburban women...

don’t underestimate Crazy Bernie!


17 posted on 02/23/2020 7:26:57 PM PST by sheehan (DEPORT ALL ILLEGALS.)
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To: A_Former_Democrat
And while Bernie read a book on Marx

The quartet practiced, in the park....

18 posted on 02/23/2020 7:28:07 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: karpov

It was a more common name in the 1870’s when Bernie was born.


19 posted on 02/23/2020 7:28:16 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: karpov

So this is ONE freebie that Bernie missed and Liz tossed out at Mikey in the debate. How could Bernie have missed the one? How is he going to up the ante for Lizzy? How will Lizzy then counter?

Stay tuned for more of As the Democrats Spin.


20 posted on 02/23/2020 7:29:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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