Senator Bernie Sanders campaigns for budget proposal in Cedar Rapids

[Uncle Joe]

Sanders, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, traveled to both Iowa and Indiana. There he hosted town halls in congressional districts where former president Donald Trump increased his vote total between 2016 and 2020.

Sanders says the Democrats' budget proposal touches nearly every aspect of American life. If passed, the legislation would ask the wealthiest American to pay higher taxes, extended the Child Tax Credit, guarantee free pre-k for all three and four year old's, ensure no family pays more than 7% for child care, make community college free, combat the threat of climate change, create millions of jobs, make housing affordable, expand Medicare to lower the age and cover eyeglasses, hearing aids, and dental care, and make home care more affordable.

“Within the next several months Congress will be voting on the most consequential piece of legislation for working people, the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal of the 1930s,” Sanders said. “While it will have no Republican support in Washington, Democrats, Independents and working class Republicans all over the country support our plan to finally invest in the long-neglected needs of working families. I very much look forward to hearing from some of them.”

A recent poll by Data for Progress found support from across the political spectrum for the $3.5 trillion package.


https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/senator-bernie-sanders-campaigns-for-budget-proposal-in-cedar-rapids

[Carlitos Brigante]

1. K&R! nt

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Not a lot of hearts and minds were changed,

Link to tweet

[DFW]

5. It does beg the question

That’s nice and all, but what is he doing in the U.S. Senate for the people of Vermont? I doubt the people in Burlington and White River Junction are more interested in what he’s doing in Iowa than what he’s doing for their State on the Senate floor.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. I have trouble caring about what this person does

I really do not care

[iemanja]

3. Life is a constant presidential campaign for him

[betsuni]

4. "Five voters who backed Trump agreed that they didn't trust Sanders, Biden, or Democrats to

carry out such programs fairly. Some said they could get behind the ideas if they weren't giveaways for all and weren't backed by massive tax increases. 'Why do we have to raise taxes on anybody? I just don't get it,' said Mitch Alfson, 61, who voted for Trump. 'The projects they're talking about, some of them are great projects, but is the money really going for that or are they all going to line their pockets? I don't trust 'em, especially Bernie.'"

They believe Democrats are only concerned about giveaways for undeserving minorities/immigrants/others/elites in exchange for votes -- the Republican classic "welfare queens" "entitlements" -- the "Them." The wealthy and corporations are included in their category of "Us." They make this perfectly clear. Not about policy, racial identity.

This has always been Bernie's message: "The point that I make over and over ... is the ideas that I talk about are ideas that the American people want. They don't get it because you got a Congress indebted to wealthy campaign contributors." That doesn't encourage anyone to trust government.