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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At least with the military spending and corporate ‘deductions’ - not handouts - they are going towards people that are working for those dollars. We actually get things in return instead of them going to welfare dollars and getting nothing for it.
If he promises me a free live in massage therapist of my choosing I might even vote for him (sarc)
The man is bat-shit crazy!
If he gets the Democrat nomination, he’ll go down as the biggest Presidential loser EVER on Nov. 3!
We sang his dirges in DenMark
November Day, the ComMie Died
If Bern had a dollar for every atom in the observable universe*, he’d spend every penny, and come up with 10 new spending needs.
* - it is estimated that the there are between 10**78 to 10**82 atoms in the known, observable universe
Got to get those kiddos away from their parents for brainwashing early as possible.
Every communist knows that.
It’s bad enough that the government treats us like a herd of dairy cows.
Bernie wants to turn us into beef cattle.
Just what we need: giving the leftists more exposure to our kids.
Home School ping.
The good point is wealth is less than 32 million no change in tax rate )wink wink)
this the 2% or whatever wealth tax?
that would actually have huge economic impacts as most of the wealth in this country is not liquid at all.
Tax the rich, feed the poor, till there are no rich no more.
I can’t believe that people actually vote for this piece of human fecis. Really freakin unbelievable.
Does anybody really understand what is going on besides us Freepers? If this country puts a true Communist in the White House, I have no idea how the country will respond at any level.
Joe McCarthy was a prophet without honor in his own country.
So the plan is, take both my kids and my money against my will, then use my money to fund brainwashing my kids against me and against my values and to admire and serve the will of collectivist scum tyrants? Got it.
So Bernie wants the state to raise all children to insure they are properly indoctrinated?
Sorry Bernie we will raise our children ourselves and teach them to hate socialism and communism as the enemies of our nation that they have been for the las hundred years.
Folks we gotta teach out kids how to shoot, reload, and use camo properly.
Worse than Mondale?? Is that even possible?
If he truly were to tax “wealth” instead of “income”, then the Dems would lose a LOT of support from the “I Got Mine” club.
There goes my retirement dollars. It is a good thing Bernie knows better than me how to spend MY MONEY!!
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