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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Kick if you are ready for 100% increase in tax revenues. [View all]kennetha
(3,666 posts)126. Your individual taxes are not going to double
that's not what I'm saying. But you're right you do have to both benefits and costs. Bernie's been big on the benefits, and mostly skating on the costs.
He's proposing tax increases that are unprecedented. Lots to cost and benefits to weigh. Can't just focus on the apparently free stuff. Have to ask what would tax increases of the size that he is imagine -- which have NEVER been implemented in the entire history of this country -- really do for the economy.
And don't forget his assumptions are probably all rosy best case scenario type assumptions.
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Sometimes I wonder if these OPs come from Weekly World News, next to Elvis was a Space Alien! nt
TheBlackAdder
Feb 2016
#114
Your OP says "federal revenue" and that is what I gave a link to. It is ~$3.3 Trillion
Motown_Johnny
Feb 2016
#113
Me too or three! And for firms like Verizon, which over the past few years have paid Zero
truedelphi
Feb 2016
#120
This message of Hope and Change brought to you from the fear mongers at Hillary Co.
NightWatcher
Feb 2016
#16
An economist found that median income would increase by $22,000 if Bernie Sanders gets to the White
pberq
Feb 2016
#19
Well . . . jeez . . . I'll happily pay more taxes so everyone can have Medicare like I do.
Vinca
Feb 2016
#33
LOL, hillary, is that you? Wow, fucking desperation taking over the hill fans. Nt
Logical
Feb 2016
#62
Yeah, America is so great that we can't do what every other industrialized country.....
DrewFlorida
Feb 2016
#66
Wow - I didn't realize you were a CEO of a corporation that hides its earnings in the Cayman Isles.
jillan
Feb 2016
#71
I make about 14,000 per year...and my health care wants me to pay 800+ per month
angstlessk
Feb 2016
#82
Not quite doubling TOTAL federal revenue but increasing it by an amount equal to
kennetha
Feb 2016
#85
If it was okay for Bernanke and Geithner to "leak" some 22 trillions of dollars to the
truedelphi
Feb 2016
#104