Bernie Sanders Is a De Facto Millionaire

[workinclasszero]

Bernie Sanders Is a De Facto Millionaire
Kerri Anne Renzulli @kerenzulli March 15, 2016


Democratic presidential hopeful and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders rails against the “billionaire class,” has called income inequality “the greatest moral issue of our time,” and has made a big point of contrasting his earnings against his peers in this election.

While the senator is indeed far less wealthy than many of his Senate colleagues — as well as his fellow presidential contenders — he is not exactly a man of modest means.


http://time.com/money/4235986/bernie-sanders-millionaire-finances/

[DemocracyDirect]

1. So he earned less than 1% of what the Clinton's have raked in a few years.

I think makes him trustworthy.

Her, not so much.

[workinclasszero]

8. So the hero of the working class is a millionaire.

He sure as hell ain't no FDR either.

[DemocracyDirect]

11. Oh so this is a smear.

Sorry to interrupt you.

[workinclasszero]

12. No smear

Just fact

[CentralCoaster]

13. He's one of the poorer members of congress, ranks 341 out of 541

Do you even bother to check facts or do you just grab turds as you find them on the internet and post em?

http://media.cq.com/50Richest/

[workinclasszero]

14. One of the poorest in Congress equals

1%er to most Americans.

Welcome to the real world.

[CentralCoaster]

18. You can't admit that you're wrong? Bernie is no one-percenter. What a joke.

I doubt that you have the capacity to admit it or apologize, but I'll explain for others.

The adjusted gross income for both Jane and Bernie was $205K.

This puts them in the top 10%, true, but not the top 1%.

Please do more research. Your time article is a hot mess of unnecessarily complex data twisted to reach a specious conclusion.

[workinclasszero]

24. Oh my...Bernie is top 10% not 1%

Big difference huh?

He has full lifetime guaranteed health care coverage paid for by me who can't go to a doctor unless I'm dying...maybe... and and he made over 200,000 last year?

That poor baby! How the hell will he ever survive!?

[DemocracyDirect]

26. You will just try anything to smear.

It isn't working.

How will you ever survive?

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Newsflash: Poor people can't afford to run for President...

However, this is not the best line of argument for Hillary supporters to be taking, respectfully.

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. Bernie brings tens of thousands to his events. Trump brings about half of that.

Trump measures the value of "his brand" at 2 billion - so yeah, his net worth should begin to catch up to his human worth.

[CoffeeCat]

4. Oh the outrage!!

Pardon me while I dump Bernie and switch my allegiance to the neocon warmonger and high priestess of corporatism!

You've convinced me!!

[dogman]

5. Many people are by the time they are 74.

Especially if they are still working at a high paying job. Millionaire is far from a billionaire.

[Warren Stupidity]

6. Bernie owns most of a house, has a 401k.

Like millions of other middle class Americans. His opponent had an income of 28 Million Dollars in 2014. Even you should be capable of understanding why your op doesn't even rise to the level of horseshit.

[beam me up scottie]

7. *yawn* This was last month's poutrage, try harder.

[Peregrine Took]

21. I've noticed this, also. They just aren't really trying anymore....

guess they've just given up.

Poor things...

[beam me up scottie]

23. It's like they're phoning it in. Tax returns released, pope met, what's the use?

I'll just Google something and throw it out there, maybe it'll stick this time.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. So he has a 401K equivalent that might make his net worth a million bucks or so.

What's unusual about that kind of asset belonging to a professional couple who've worked and saved for decades? The finance people always insist that people should have that much in their savings if they want to retire comfortably. Hillary made more than Bernie's entire net worth, including his retirement savings, just by making speeches to the vampire squids of Wall Street. Bernie ain't no 1%er.

[CentralCoaster]

10. He's one of the poorer members of congress, ranks 341 out of 541

You're pretty funny, tho!

http://media.cq.com/50Richest/

[NWCorona]

15. And?

[Autumn]

16. He still makes less in a year than Clintom makes in one half hour speech

I and a lot of people are paper millionaires. We have pensions ,investments for old age and our homes.

Few people can go out and spend $50,000-per-week beachfront rental for a vacation like Clinton can.

http://time.com/money/4002916/hillary-clinton-vacation-rental/

The weekly rental fee falls just below the U.S. median household income.

Hillary Clinton released a new ad this morning reminding voters of her middle-class background. But there’s nothing middle-class about the way she vacations.

According to the Daily Mail, Clinton will spend her upcoming break from the campaign trail at a $50,000-per-week beachfront rental in the Hamptons along with Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, her son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky, and her new granddaughter, Charlotte. The four-bedroom Amagansett mansion, which Clinton is renting for the second consecutive year from Republican donor Andre Nasser and his wife Lois, features a 50 ft pool and a private beach. The two week rental will cost the Clintons nearly twice the U.S.’ median household income ($51,939, as of September 2014).

[Lone_Wolf]

17. Guess we now know not to read anything Kerri Anne Renzulli ever writes again

[DisgustipatedinCA]

19. Do you want to know how filthy rich he really is? I'll tell you.

He's so damned rich, he might be able to afford this house in a standard subdivision 25 miles north of San Francisco. But it would be tight.

http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/46-Audubon-Way_Novato_CA_94949_M23688-29432

You're going to need to find a dumber crowd to work.

[Autumn]

25. A two week beachfront rental fee would make a nice down payment on that.

http://time.com/money/4002916/hillary-clinton-vacation-rental/

[Triana]

20. His AGI in 2014 is HALF what Clinton got for ONE Wall St. speech.

The Clintons are multi-millionaires and many of their donors are billionaires.

What the hell was your point, again?

Seriously?

OH the hypocrisy. And the desperation. Puhleeze.

[jmg257]

22. HAHAHA! Net worth of $500K... $210K combined income with pension...Yeah he's rolling in it!!

More of that "math" we keep hearing about??

[HassleCat]

27. Well, so am I, but big deal.

If someone has a net worth around a million dollars, it's not a big deal now days. He is a person of modest means.

[DemocracyDirect]

28. Anything not to talk about transcripts.

It's the smear-o-matic.

[jmg257]

29. "Although it’s unclear what types of assets Sanders actually holds..."

Oh but please - feel free to continue this nonsense - it's funnier than the "he won't go/he won't speak/he won't meet..."

[Kip Humphrey]

30. "is indeed far less wealthy than many of his Senate colleagues" If you make the claim, provide proof

by listing the Senators LESS wealthy than Bernie Sanders.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. What a guy! He did everything we are all told, save for retirement and invest in a home.

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Who bitches about this? The grasshopper who lives and spends the little of his money like a drunken sailor.

I have co-workers who are the ants, retiring at age 56, because they drive 15-year-old cars, live in smaller homes, saving everything they had. They go out to the movies once a week and out to dinner once week. Only one vacation each year, and they drive there.


Now who is fucking laughing. We'll all be working until retirement. But, we spent our money differently.


It's like the private sector workers laughing at the state employees. And then retirement comes along, and the private sector guys had their employers screw with their retirement plans, they didn't put enough in their 401K, etc... they're pissed that the state workers had a rigid system that did not screw with them.


Many people who are zeros are the people who harbor anger and no one wants to work with them, let alone promote them. They never want to better themselves, with one excuse or another why to keep things the same--all while wondering why things don't change. They wonder why they don't get raises, why they are stuck in shitty jobs... all the while thinking they are perfect. When in reality, they're delusional. A long reflective look in the mirror might correct this, but like with most who are suffering with an issue, they must want to change.


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[ThePhilosopher04]

32. Who cares. He's been fighting the same fight for 40-50+

years, regardless of what his income was at the time. Can't say the same for the other "Democratic" candidate in the race. More poutrage trying to smear Bernie.

[Sunlei]

33. Since the millionaire population plunged in 2008, the U.S. has gained or added back more than 3.5 mi

Since the millionaire population plunged in 2008, the U.S. has gained or added back more than 3.5 million millionaires.

From google search- "How many millionaires in America?"

[GeorgeGist]

34. Math is diffucult ...

but B I L L I O N is a thousand times more than a M I L L I O N !