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Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:17 AM Mar 2016

An Enraged Bernie Sanders Trashes Tax Policy Center Analysis Of His Tax Plan

An Bernie Sanders Trashes Tax Policy Center Analysis Of His Tax Plan
By Jason Easley on Fri, Mar 4th, 2016 at 9:51 pm

With more than a hint of rage, a the senior policy adviser for the Bernie Sanders campaign trashed a Tax Policy Center analysis that found that the Sanders tax plan would raise taxes on all income groups by more than $15 trillion.

The Tax Policy Center analyzed Sen. Sanders’ tax plan and concluded, “Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders proposes significant increases in federal income, payroll, business, and estate taxes, and new excise taxes on financial transactions and carbon. New revenues would pay for universal health care, education, family leave, rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure, and more. TPC estimates the tax proposals would raise $15.3 trillion over the next decade. All income groups would pay some additional tax, but most would come from high-income households, particularly those with the very highest income. His proposals would raise taxes on work, saving, and investment, in some cases to rates well beyond recent historical experience in the US.”

Sanders Policy Director Warren Gunnels tore apart the TPC analysis:

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bold plan to rebuild the middle class, raise wages and reduce the poverty rate during his presidential campaign. At a time when income and wealth inequality are skyrocketing, Sanders pays for his economic agenda by making Wall Street, large corporations and the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share in taxes.

Unlike Citizens for Tax Justice, the Tax Policy Center chose to analyze Sanders’ tax plan in a vacuum without taking into account the savings the American people would gain under his Medicare-for-all plan. That is misleading.

The analysis from Citizens for Tax Justice found that 95 percent of American households will see their take-home pay go up, not down, under Sanders’ Medicare- for-all plan which is paid for by his progressive tax plan.

Citizens for Tax Justice also found that middle class families would see their take-home pay go up by more than $3,200 a year under Sanders’ plan.

Not only did the Tax Policy Center fail to estimate the savings the American people will gain under Medicare-for-all, they also fail to count the economic gains that would be achieved by Sanders’ plan to rebuild the middle class.

Sanders has a plan to create and maintain at least 13 million jobs rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure. It is widely accepted among many economists that rebuilding roads, bridges, drinking water facilities, airports and other infrastructure needs creates jobs for Americans in the short-term while allowing commerce to flow more smoothly in the long-term, a win-win for prosperity in the U.S. The Tax Policy Center did not look at that...


http://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/04/enraged-bernie-sanders-trashes-tax-policy-center-analysis-tax-plan.html
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An Enraged Bernie Sanders Trashes Tax Policy Center Analysis Of His Tax Plan (Original Post) Barack_America Mar 2016 OP
LOL - Sanders was enraged? Your subject line is a lie. n/t Avalux Mar 2016 #1
Um, I'm a Bernie supporter. Barack_America Mar 2016 #3
I know, but Bernie wasn't enraged. His surrogate was. Sorry but I like accuracy. n/t Avalux Mar 2016 #5
I didn't care for the inaccurate title either. nt Snotcicles Mar 2016 #25
Politicus is on an anti-Bernie rampage this week. madfloridian Mar 2016 #2
I'm just pleased the campaign is swatting this down quickly and forcefully. Barack_America Mar 2016 #6
Yeah, what's up with that? I visit them daily and they've changed 2 weeks ago. TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #7
I unsubscribed a month or two ago when they had twice attacked Bernie unfairly. madfloridian Mar 2016 #9
I am afraid it is not just Politicus, but sadoldgirl Mar 2016 #10
You forgot this section of the article pkdu Mar 2016 #4
And this... TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #8
The OP is about the article pkdu Mar 2016 #14
Yes, so it is open to say that the 'neutral' Tax Policy Center is a corporatist domain! TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #15
AARP - Facisti ! nt pkdu Mar 2016 #20
They lean RW, if you didn't know. But, I guess you don't. Instead, going hyperbolic. TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #22
I am a member. They only "lean RW" if you are falling off the other side. pkdu Mar 2016 #23
Bull, I get solicited from them too! They cater to the over 50s. Older tend to be more Conservative! TheBlackAdder Mar 2016 #24
I wanted to focus on the campaign's response. Barack_America Mar 2016 #11
I predicted it didn't include the gains from the single payer. Another one debunked. Gregorian Mar 2016 #12
No one's tax plan works out TheFarseer Mar 2016 #13
Tax Policy Center is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution angstlessk Mar 2016 #16
I almost posted this article because it had a good response to the corporate media conglomerates' Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #17
Why Doesn't Bernie Say Something Like.... global1 Mar 2016 #18
k&r dana_b Mar 2016 #19
I don't see a disagreement here. They both agree his plan raises taxes by that much, right? Recursion Mar 2016 #21

Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
6. I'm just pleased the campaign is swatting this down quickly and forcefully.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:23 AM
Mar 2016

Obviously we all know that you'll pay a bit more in taxes if you've got more in your pocket.

TheBlackAdder

(28,073 posts)
7. Yeah, what's up with that? I visit them daily and they've changed 2 weeks ago.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:23 AM
Mar 2016

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Through by continuing ed poli-sci schooling, these types of actions become transparent.


I've also noticed that comments were disabled for over two months.


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madfloridian

(88,117 posts)
9. I unsubscribed a month or two ago when they had twice attacked Bernie unfairly.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:25 AM
Mar 2016

If they are fair criticisms that's one thing, but these were not.

pkdu

(3,977 posts)
4. You forgot this section of the article
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:22 AM
Mar 2016

The Sanders campaign reacted so strongly to the TPC analysis because they know that it could be the final nail in the coffin of their presidential campaign. Sen. Sanders was already combatting the perception that his tax plan would lead to historic levels of tax increases to pay for the political revolution that he is proposing. The last thing the campaign needed was for the headline Sanders Tax Plan Will Raise Taxes By $15 Trillion to be splashed all over the media.

TheBlackAdder

(28,073 posts)
24. Bull, I get solicited from them too! They cater to the over 50s. Older tend to be more Conservative!
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:00 PM
Mar 2016

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I expect you to keep posting drivel over and over, trying to ignore the majority of the funders of the Tax Center are corporatists--while focusing on the AARP. The denial that the AARP leans right is astonishing.


I'm in continuing Poli-Sci program, while working and raising a family, and even the PS-101 students know that younger are more liberal and older are more conservative. This is true in the Republican Party and within the Democratic Party.


Try again, because it seems to be you who struggles with a basic political fact.


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Barack_America

(28,876 posts)
11. I wanted to focus on the campaign's response.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:26 AM
Mar 2016

I don't care about their interpretation of the campaigns response. We all know the goal of that fictitious $15 trillion number, and the campaign isn't standing for it. Good.

TheFarseer

(9,308 posts)
13. No one's tax plan works out
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:29 AM
Mar 2016

Who gives a rat's ass? It's just an indication of what your priorities are really. It's not like any of them will get their entire tax plan passed. If you're Ted Cruz you'll get 0% of it passed and no one gives him crap about it.

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)
16. Tax Policy Center is a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:54 AM
Mar 2016
Urban Institute

(Chair) Jamie Gorelick - who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997, during the Clinton administion.

(Members)
Erskine Bowles - Bowles served as the Democratic co-chair of President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform
Greg Mankiw - Mankiw was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. In 2006, he became an economic adviser to Mitt Romney and continued during Romney's 2012 presidential bid.
Judy Woodruff - and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Brookings Institution

David M. Rubenstein - Co-Chair of the Board The Brookings Institution Co-Founder and Co-CEO The Carlyle Group
John L. Thornton - Co-Chair of the Board The Brookings Institution Chairman of the Board Barrick Gold
Suzanne Nora Johnson - Vice Chair of the Board The Brookings Institution Former Vice Chairman The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
17. I almost posted this article because it had a good response to the corporate media conglomerates'
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:57 AM
Mar 2016

propaganda but the title was so stupid.

Thanks for the thread, Barack_America.

global1

(25,168 posts)
18. Why Doesn't Bernie Say Something Like....
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 01:23 AM
Mar 2016

Come on people - I want to rebuild the middle class - why would I want to raise your taxes. Please take some time to understand what my plan is from my website and don't believe what my opponent and her followers are saying.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
21. I don't see a disagreement here. They both agree his plan raises taxes by that much, right?
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 03:53 AM
Mar 2016

I mean I guess Gunnels is saying "that doesn't count because it will end up saving a lot of people money"? I mean, sure, but it's actually an increases in taxes by that much, right? Just say so.

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