Padawanbater2
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TL;DW - They'd be cheaper than what we're spending now and much more efficient
How Much Would Bernie Sanders' Ideas Actually Cost?
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TL;DW - They'd be cheaper than what we're spending now and much more efficient
ASCIIGHOST
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Its comical to me how he attempts to answer questions the same way the get-along-gang on here does.
ASCIIGHOST
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Bill Maher in an usual (but correct) move grills Bern about how to pay for his programs. At the end Bernie admits (finally) it will cost more than what taxing the top 1% would produce. "We may have to go down a littler lower than that (top 1%) but not much lower. Its clear he doesn't know what it would cost, or who all would have to pay for it..........but i can tell you, it would cost more than the free market would cost, and everyone's taxes will go up.
The_Herban_Legend
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Politicians have not cared about cost, since Bill Clinton.
Rob Roy
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ttystikk
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REPUBLICAN politicians don't care about cost when they are in power; only when they aren't do they start complaining about how much things cost. They are very consistent indeed about this.
They've also met very few defense contracts they didn't like- even when the Pentagon didn't!
Subsidies to huge, highly profitable corporations? Sure, no problem! Tax breaks for those already ROLLING IN CASH? SURE! NO NEED TO ACTUALLY PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE IF YOU'VE GOT A FAT STACK! And if greed doesn't work, fear and racial hate mongering step in to fill the ranks of right wing voters.
In short, the Republican Party lies about everything it can, and one of their biggest smokescreens is the complete fabrication that somehow cutting social programs for the needy in order to pay for tax cuts to the wealthy and wildly profitable is 'fiscal responsibility' when indeed the Pope himself came and called them out on it IN PERSON.
desert dude
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Look at that creepy face. Probably hangs around the school yard with a knapsack full of candy.
The_Herban_Legend
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Don't take my argument as siding with the Repubs but both parties have been running up the deficit.
Uncle Ben
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I had the same thought and also picture this old has-been flailing his arms, spitting as he acts out and blurts some delusional thought, scaring alllllllllllllllll the little kiddies.
ChesusRice
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UncleBuck
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Harrekin
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Barack Obama
Everything
20.8 trillion dollar debt (that's a 100%+ increase on 08 ).
ginwilly
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Bush!!
UncleBuck
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maybe if you keep crying, history will forget that he took a surplus handed to him by a democrat and turned it into the most massive deficit this country has ever seen, even in wartime and depression.
Harrekin
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Ermagerd!! Jerge Bersh!!
The thing about Bush tho, he was a bit retarded at speaking, but even for all his fuck ups, he still didn't double the debt of every single President before him.
Darth Vapour
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since when in Merica's history have they worried about cost CHARGE IT lol
Harrekin
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34% APR, but I'll only have to pay $10 a month...
The_Herban_Legend
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Before Nixon took us off the gold standard.
Padawanbater2
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Would you happen to have a picture of the deficit going from H.W. to Obama?
Can you post that?