Monday, February 24, 2020

Bernie Sanders admits he has no idea of how to pay for all the "free" stuff he's offering

Bernie Sanders is saying that if elected he's going to provide the following "free" things:

  • Free college and forgiveness of all college debt that hasn't already been paid
  • Free health care
  • "Affordable" health care
  • Minimum $60k for school teachers who work 9 months a year
  • Nation wide $15/hr minimum wage

Of interest these "freebies" would also be given to the 11 to 22 million illegal aliens in America who wouldn't be taxed to pay for them unlike Americans.

When Anderson Cooper asked Bernie how much this was going to cost Bernie could only say that Medicare for all would cost $30 trillion.

Cooper in a rare example of not fawning over Democrat candidates asked how Bernie knew he could pay for all this when he didn't even know how much it would all cost, other than Medicare for all.

Anderson Cooper: But you say you don’t know what the total price is, but you know how it’s gonna be paid for. How do you know it’s gonna be paid for if you don’t know how much the price is?

Bernie Sanders: Well, I can’t– you know, I can’t rattle off to you ever nickel and every dime. But we have accounted for– you– you talked about Medicare for All. We have options out there that will pay for it.

Essentially Bernie admitted that he has no idea of how he'll pay for everything or he was admitting that the answer was massive tax increases on the middle class, the rich alone simply don't have enough money even with a 100% tax rate.

Of course saying that massively increasing taxes on the 60% of Americans who don't go to college to allow illegal aliens to get free degrees in gender studies is something that even Bernie knows won't appeal to voters so he'll avoid saying that right up until he's in a position to impose it on we the people.

Very few Americans support being taxed to provide free health care to illegal aliens so that's another reason that Bernie can't actually say how he plans to pay for his largesse; assuming that he actually thinks that he needs to know how Americans are going to pay for all the "free" stuff he wants to give out to win votes.

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