Sen. Sanders Presents $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill as Job Creator

[kpete]

Sanders says 13 million jobs could be created if Congress taxed the wealthy and corporate tax havens, but taxing the wealthy is a non-starter for Republicans - January 29, 2015

SANDERS: When you have hedge fund managers in this country paying a lower effective tax rate than firemen or nurses, I think there are progressive ways to raise the money.

In Washington, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is trying to do something about it.

BERNIE SANDERS, U.S. SENATOR (I-VT): And what I could tell you: if you turn your back on infrastructure and you don't invest, do you know what happens? It gets worse. It doesn't get better all by itself.

DESVARIEUX: To make infrastructure better, Sanders introduced the Rebuild America Act. The bill would invest $1 trillion over five years and provide 13 million living wage jobs, an issue he says should get support no matter where you stand on the political spectrum.

SANDERS: So what we hope to do--and I'm so pleased that we have different organizations here--is to kind of rally the American people to have the Congress do what they know needs to be done. Now, where the debate will take place, how big should it be, yeah, this is pretty big, but I think America should lead. We should have big ideas. We should put millions of people back to work. Other people may want to be doing this thing in a smaller way. How do you pay for it? That's going to be a real debate.



MORE of the interview here:
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=13091

[phantom power]

1. If our politics was sane this would be totally uncontroversial

[Enthusiast]

5. +1

Grover Norquist doesn't approve of the additional revenue necessary to repair the infrastructure.

[Scuba]

10. + another

[RiverLover]

2. 13 million jobs!! While making US safer.

How could anyone support more bombs over this??

[WillyT]

3. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[AtomicKitten]

4. Bernie is a gem.

[Enthusiast]

6. K&R! Yay, Bernie!

[Dustlawyer]

7. Keep fighting Bernie! Don't let their attempts to marginalize you be successful!

We need to decide if we have the courage of our convictions, or do we want to play it safe and vote for someone who will protect the rich and powerful, but not be a Republican.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Very nice. He's proposing what could be his 2016 platform as legislation

to get it out & discussed for the next couple of years. None of it will pass in that time period, but the public will be much more exposed to his ideas by then, and will know whom to blame for what they don't have.

[iandhr]

9. Somewhere Ike is smiling

Sanders routinely quotes him on Facebook