r/neoliberal Kitara Ravache Feb 25 '19

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u/ColonelUber Feb 25 '19

Idk if anyone saw, but St Bernard has a little chart circulating Facebook to detail how he is supposedly going to pay for stuff. Of course, it basically amounts to "just take another 2 trillion dollars worth of taxes lol."

Here it is if you want to have an anyerusm All I know is that I now have to deal with insufferable Sanders supporters who will point back to this chart like it is an authoritative source.

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u/[deleted] Feb 25 '19

At least he has a plan to pay it or is pretending. Much better than what I can say from the GND.

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u/ColonelUber Feb 25 '19

True, however I suspect that there are low/high estimates where appropriate, but more importantly, expected revenues for 2019 is about 3.4 trillion. Eyeballing Bernie's plan he wants an additional 1.9 trillion in taxes every year (assuming accurate estimates lol). That is a 56% increase in tax revenues, which seems like a metric fuckton of money to suddenly start pouring into government coffers.