Dem debate tonight

[Basileus]

Sanders never said he supports a 90% tax rate. He just said that's what it was back in the day under Eisenhower.

You're just making sh*t up basically.

“We haven’t come up with an exact number yet” for the top tax rate “but it will not be as high as the number under Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was 90 percent.”

Sanders was specifically asked if he was opposed to a 90% tax rate for America's income-earners. He flatly said "No."

 

[VivaRevolution]

Sanders was specifically asked if he was opposed to a 90% tax rate for America's income-earners. He flatly said "No."

Do you understand that there is a difference between the words propose, and oppose?

 

[second sight]

Sanders never said he supports a 90% tax rate. He just said that's what it was back in the day under Eisenhower.

You're just making sh*t up basically.

“We haven’t come up with an exact number yet” for the top tax rate “but it will not be as high as the number under Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was 90 percent.”

Early in his campaign, Sanders drew alarm when he said in an interview with CNBC that he doesn’t think a top marginal tax rate of 90 percent is too high....

 

[COTUR1@43]

You know what else I find funny/ironic? From the way Bernie and HRC talk America is currently hell on earth, yet Obama has been POTUS for over 7 years and they also welcome more immigrants to this apparently terrible place.

 

[Lustercross]

A tax rate that high will force the rich to spend their money into the economy, instead of hording it while everyone around them suffers. I don't see that as a bad thing.

 

[VivaRevolution]

You know what else I find funny/ironic? From the way Bernie and HRC talk America is currently hell on earth, yet Obama has been POTUS for over 7 years and they also welcome more immigrants to this apparently terrible place.

Sanders supports a path to citizenship, but he is not a open boarders guy. He understands that immigration destroys the value of labor, he voted against a past immigration bill based on this objection.

Sanders will also not defend the status quo of either party today.

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Sanders was specifically asked if he was opposed to a 90% tax rate for America's income-earners. He flatly said "No."

'Not being opposed to it' is not the same as supporting or implementing it.

In one of the earlier debates he specifically mentions Eisenhowers tax rates and then says 'my rates wont be that high Im not as much of a socialist as Eisenhower'