Report: Bernie Sanders proposes $15T in tax increases, hitting most taxpayers .
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has proposed $15.3 trillion in tax increases, according to a new report, and would raise rates on virtually everyone, including the politically all-important middle class.
Not surprisingly for a candidate who has made income inequality his central issue, Sanders’s plan would wallop the rich, an analysis released Friday by the Tax Policy Center shows.
The top 0.1 percent would see their tax bills go up by more than $3 million, the report said, which would cut their after-tax incomes by almost half.
But Sanders, going where few politicians dare, would also raise taxes on middle- and low-income families, with those in the dead center of the income spectrum facing a $4,700 tax increase. That would reduce their after-tax incomes by 8.5 percent, the report said.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/03/bernie-sanders-tax-increases-220267#ixzz41xbGl1Yw
ETA: The funniest part about thread responses are that BERNIE ADMITTED MIDDLE CLASS TAXES WILL GO UP. Some of you just arent hearing it though.
https://lettertosanders.wordpress.com/2016/02/17/open-letter-to-senator-sanders-and-professor-gerald-friedman-from-past-cea-chairs/
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The rest of the tax increases are on wall street speculation - same thing Hillary proposes.
Closing tax loopholes - also proposed by Hillary.
Here is a simple chart to make it simple for you.
Obviously whoever wrote this has no clue on Bernie's plans to pay for everything he proposes, which is pathetic because it is all at BernieSanders.com
tore apart that op-ed.
If your description is accurate, it's a very bad plan.
Bernie's got a hard sell ahead of him.
Hillarians are like Wile E Coyote.
On the plus-side: Bernie WILL BE defeated in the primaries.
Go, Hillary! We love you! 
Everyone pays more taxes and then Bernie and his cronies are going to set that big pile of cash on fire and roast marshmallows. Taxes are for suckers! Don't they know that we should be drowning the government in the bathtub? That it's our money and not the government's and hard working families know best how to spend their hard earned cash? Ronald Reagan told us many times that CUTTING taxes raises revenue. Apparently some of Sanders' pie in the sky followers just don't understand that.
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I don't mind paying a bit extra to be sure that even unemployed I'd be covered.
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/4/11161616/bernie-sanders-tax-policy-center
Response to JaneyVee (Original post)
If you don't go to college because you don't want to or because you have to work to support your parents etc., you miss out!
If you already get subsidized health insurance and pay virtually nothing because you are poor or near poor, you miss out!
And the people in the middle class who are helping family members still get hit with the tax increase although that money may very well have gone to that help.
Just the sound of this tax burden, no matter what might happen to the projected economy will drive people to the GOP. And if we withdraw from the international economy while this is going on, the US consumer will be taking triple whammy. Nothing happens in a vacuum. And the economists who have supported this plan are doing so ASSUMING a 5% growth rate that absolutely will not happen if we foul up our moves on trade.
Probably something like this is what this is based on. Bernie is the only candidate who has put out specific proposals and also told how he will fund them. If you look closely, these are mostly taken from the rich and corporations. All things that most of us agree on.
Taxing corporate off shore income, Wall Street speculation tax, etc. look down the list. Most people will be paying less, saving anywhere from $2500 to $5000.
Here are the facts.
Look it over and see if the OP reflects the reality or is merely just deceptive to perpetuate a lie.
