No, Bernie Sanders is not going to bankrupt America to the tune of $18 trillion

[leftcoastmountains]

-The answer isn’t quite so dramatic: while Sanders does want to spend significant amounts of money, almost all of it is on things we’re already paying for; he just wants to change how we pay for them. In some ways it’s by spreading out a cost currently borne by a limited number of people to all taxpayers. His plan for free public college would do this: right now, it’s paid for by students and their families, while under Sanders’ plan we’d all pay for it in the same way we all pay for parks or the military or food safety.

But the bulk of what Sanders wants to do is in the first category: to have us pay through taxes for things we’re already paying for in other ways. Depending on your perspective on government, you may think that’s a bad idea. But we shouldn’t treat his proposals as though they’re going to cost us $18 trillion on top of what we’re already paying.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/09/15/no-bernie-sanders-is-not-going-to-bankrupt-america-to-the-tune-of-18-trillion/

[n2doc]

1. Most of it is to provide medicare for everyone`

15 trillion out of the 18. And if this means that a person who is already paying for private insurance no longer has to do so, then there is a big savings for the person. I would assume taxes would go up to cover this, but I also suspect that overall a person would have more money left over.

[KoKo]

2. Andrea Mitchell tried to push that WSJ crap on Bernie

in her interview today. Bernie says he's going to get an answer out to counter WSJ but went on to explain how the article was incorrect to her on air.