Bernie's budget is good for the middle class (and the rest of the 99%)

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Bernie Sanders's $18 trillion in proposed spending is more affordable than it sounds

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/15/9330931/bernie-sanders-spending-cost

There's a $15 trillion Medicare-for-all plan, and then there's everything else. Everything else tallies up to $3 trillion over 10 years. That is a lot of money. It is, however, $400 billion cheaper than Jeb Bush's tax cut plan. So the typical middle-class family will get $942 from Jeb Bush, while in Sanders-land the typical middle-class family will get free college, paid parental leave, and a bunch of new transportation infrastructure — plus Sanders averts the need to cut Social Security benefits or raise the retirement age.