Nonpartisan study: Sanders plan will raise $15.3 Trillion in new taxes (user search)
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Trapsy
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« on: March 05, 2016, 01:49:06 AM »

Berny don't care. Everything will be fine.
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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2016, 03:49:22 AM »

http://taxpolicycenter.org/publications/url.cfm?ID=2000639

Well, at least we know his tax plan will pay for at least most of his $18 Trillion spending plan.

But I don't see that passing in Congress anytime soon.

It won't, and that's the problem with Sanders. He is promising the world to people knowing full well it won't get passed without a truly massive Democratic wave. He will need a Senate supermajority and House majority for this stuff - Padded majorities so a few Democratic dissenters can't scuttle the entire legislation.

Democrats would need to gain 14 seats (plus the 2 caucusing independents) to hold a bare 60-member US Senate supermajority, let alone extra seats for the padding. The last time a party gained that many seats in 1 election was 1958, and that was because of a major recession. Even landslides during the Great Depression didn't produce 14+ seat Senate gains in one election. Things are far too polarized right now to even come close to allowing such a sweep..

While his intentions are pure, he is being incredible naive and misleading the public.

Boom! Democrats don't have the political structure for transformational politics.
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