http://www.cato.org/blog/berniecare-would-increase-federal-expenditure-32-trillion-over-next-decade-twice-much-campaign

Cato Institute = owned by Koch brothers

Secondly, we can technically afford all this by taxing the rich at the correct level.

No, it still actually would not, unless the "right level" is 500% or something.

Technically, taxes are immoral and should be done away with.

Myhandisonfireandhasprobablyburnttoashbynow: Do you think that the Koch Brothers can honestly out propagandize the US government? The US government owns the public schools (holding the children for twelve years), practically controls the main news networks, controls Hollywood, and has a much greater incentive in greatening government control of the economy (which it has been doing through war(the government greatens control of the economy especially during wartime) and regulations on business (which the US government has placed more than 20,000).

The koch brothers can and do out propagandize the gvt, because the job of the gvt isn't to spend public funds in tv ads but to run the programs voted by the congress.

+The koch brothers receive billions in subsidies every year, so it seems like their spending in ads help them in some way.

Btw, did you know that if the US had the Reagan era taxes, THE REAGAN ERA taxes for the rich and corporations, the gvt would have $167 billion more dollars every year; enough to fund the free college plan Sanders has.

Edited 5/14/2016 22:41:16

taxes arent immoral if ppl consent to them

if ppl really hated the way they were taxed, ud vote ppl in who would tax how u want things taxed

it simple

george h w bush didnt get re-election cus he said "read my lips no more new taxes"

he lied and got his ass handed to him

dnt like taxes? go 2 somalia

as for the variety of programs that sanders has proposed - there r ways to pay for them

just a matter of h o w

Edited 5/14/2016 22:44:10

Cato Institute = owned by Koch brothers

The article is based on research done by the urban institute.

Secondly, we can technically afford all this by taxing the rich at the correct level.

I'm not sure what more you want out of these people really. Currently the top 1% of income earners (people making over over $464,682) pay almost twice their share, earning 22% of income and paying 38% of taxes.

The top 5% of earners (incomes over $175,817) pay 59% of taxes despite only making 37% of income.

And once you get down to the top 10% bracket (incomes over $125,195), they end up paying the vast majority of taxes at 70%, despite only making a minority of income at 48%.

The bottom 50% of people (incomes under $36,055) altogether only pay 3% of all taxes, despite making almost three times as much income at 11% of all income earned.

If anything, this system itself is already unfair. You have ten percent of people paying 70% of taxes, and 50% paying only three percent of taxes.

Imperator, the problem isn't the top 1% or top 10%, in my opinion they're not the big problem. The problem is the top 0.1%, or even 0.01% as well as corporations. They dodge their taxes and are currently the ones responsible for a "cash problem" the gvt has.

If only they paid their fair ammount of taxes, and if the gvt itself was more efficient, as well as radically opposed to subsidies (I think it's a barbarity to give away money to profitable corporations), a lot of what Sanders proposed can be paid for.


Btw, I totally agree with adrian here (it feels weid xD).

The rich can afford more taxes by percentage, as they are much further away from the poverty line than others. Secondly, the US has a massive wealth gap, and as such, I would like for a wealth tax to be implemented to balance out the wealth and income in the US.

They dodge their taxes and are currently the ones responsible for a "cash problem" the gvt has.

What makes you think more taxes would help if they're dodged? Anyhow, it's fine to close loopholes and stuff like that, that I'm for, more or less.

theres nothing wrong with a wealth gap if ppls standard of living goes up

why do poor care how rich the rich r if the poor are living good

however this isnt the case in the usa

corporations dodge taxes cus of how ridiculous the tax system is

why should mcdonalds pay taxes on money made from the united kingdom to the usa?

the usa is no longer competitive with its taxation system. this is a globalized economy. if u dont compete then u get ur ass handed to u by other countries

Edited 5/14/2016 22:58:48

Let's see what the US government's assets are:

CNN
US Military
Trillions of dollars
The entire public education system
The infrastructure of the US
A third of the land in America

Koch Brothers:

Lots of companies
Billions of dollars

And spending on elections have pretty much been proven to be less effective, it's more exposure, which is mostly controlled by the Democrats, Republicans and US government. If it was just Koch money, we'd have had a Libertarian candidate win long ago. You know, the guys who want to neuter the government and keep folk like Obomber from killing thousands and supporting awful folk like King Solmon.

Alright Japan, let's cap it at one billion.

The richest group in the US:
The government. They have to give 99% of their money up , maybe burn some too to deflate it, dismantle their military and I guess no more social programs either(they couldn't fund it anyways). Maybe they should donate to their victims (folk around the world who have been attacked, bombed, kidnapped and etc) too.

thanks for pointing the obv sherlock

the use of money is diluted in presidential elections. why? cus there's more free media covering the general election. this is why the koch bros are shifting their money to lesser known senate races. why? cus the general is unpredictable. its better to use congress to block the future president's objectives and put it in line

the use of money as a means of getting ur canddiate elected works when no one is paying attention. senate seats, house of reps, governor, u name it. u get to buy all the coverage and its all favorable for ur candidate.

this isnt the case with a general election. everyone is focused on it

the american people do not want libertarians.

they should b regarded as enemies of da state. if left unchecked they will get power and damage da world economy

just take a look at alan greenspan and how he ran the federal reserve

the libertarians must b stopped

Edited 5/14/2016 23:15:38

Imperator, the problem isn't the top 1% or top 10%, in my opinion they're not the big problem. The problem is the top 0.1%, or even 0.01% as well as corporations. They dodge their taxes and are currently the ones responsible for a "cash problem" the gvt has.

These are harder to find statistics for, so I'm just going to do some extrapolation if that's okay with you.

464,682*3.19 Million = 1.48 Trillion

^that's the income of the top 1%

Even if we're being generous and assume that 50% of the income of the top 1% is concentrated in the top 0.1%, This still only comes out to about 740 billion dollars a year in income.

Even if bernie can get 100% of this money, which let's face it isn't gonna happen while these people are alive, but let's assume he has them assassinated and replaces them with government wannabes who are willing to hand over all the money. This is only 7.4 trillion dollars over ten years, which not to be rude or anything, leaves a 25 Trillion dollar hole in bernies plan.

EDIT: Forgot about the income tax that we currently get, 2 Trillion dollars. This brings the hole all the way down to 23 trillion dollars!

Edited 5/14/2016 23:19:51

thats why u implement CUTS

like the MILITARY

lot of inefficencies in military spending

also the us economy isnt like regular ol ppl

because of our military strength and financial power we can hold deficits indefinitely

we rlly havent had a issue with our deficits

Edited 5/14/2016 23:21:35

Okay, let's cut the military too. That adds another 600 billion dollars/year into bernies plan:

7.4 trillion from rich people, 2.3 trillion from everyone else, 6 billion dollars from cutting the military for ten years.

Huh. There are still 17 Trillion dollars missing :/

wat dont u get about my statement

we arent greece
we arent spain
and we sure as hell arent puerto rico

our budget doesn't have to be balanced. we can hold deficits indefinitely cus we r the big ol mighty usa

this is the reality of world

also another thing to consider about social programs is how the hell r the european countries paying 4 it

dont know about the other programs but a single payer system is pretty much taking all the insurance premiums that u normally would pay to ur insurance company and give it to the government and u pay less premiums. i believe bernie is raising the payroll tax across the board for everyone by 2.2% in order to pay for it as well

u should also throw in increasing estate tax and maybe even petrol tax in ur calculations

Edited 5/14/2016 23:28:34

Let's compromise.

We cut down social spending to zero, and military spending to zero. We cut the arms to King Sauron Von Babystabber fund and cut funding to infrastructure. We cut corporate subsidies to zero and politician wages to zero. And here's the best part, the poor get zero taxes and the rich get zero taxes, to compromise.

All in all, the government while only pulling in 0$ for the next ten years, will also only spend 0$ in the next ten years. All in favor say aye.