Sanders’ Medicare for All, raising taxes, and the Establishment Pushback

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1. Just to get this straight ...

When you say 'raise taxes' ... What taxes are going to be raised specifically ? ....

From the Bernie Sanders website:

Sen. Sanders has introduced a plan to expand health care coverage to every American.

Paid for by a 6.2 percent income-based health care premium paid by employers, a 2.2 percent income-based premium paid by households, progressive income tax rates, taxing capital gains and dividends the same as income from work, limiting tax deductions for the rich, adjusting the estate tax, and savings from health tax expenditures.

So the increase is a 2.2 % premium taken from wages at payday, while simultaneously CEASING further payments to Health Insurance middlemen who skim the cream for themselves while adding ZERO Value for consumers ...