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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
The GOP, Trump, have been promoting Bernie all along, he is clearly their preferred candidate and they have purposely held off attacking him and done everything in their power to get him as the Dem's candidate.
The smear against Bernie is not he's a socialist the smear is his policies will require a massive tax rise for average americans, massive, Trump will happily claim and be believed that a vote for Bernie is a vote for 15% across the board tax increases along with massive cuts to the military.
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Not really. The marginal tax rates under his platform are identical for anyone earning under $250K; the only difference is a 4% health care surtax. For most people, that surtax merely brings them back to roughly where they were before Trump's tax cuts. And they get health care coverage to boot.
Now whether you think that will actually pay for his plan is another matter, but Americans haven't proven to be all that worried about deficits.