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Originally Posted by opendoor
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.
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Adding a 4% payroll tax is a pretty hefty tax and Trump's tax cuts didn't really benefit that many people and certainly wasn't anywhere near 4% of their income in most cases.
Replacing medical payroll deductions with a 4% payroll tax would definitely make my paycheck go own. How do you sell this to a country when the large majority does not want to give up their current health care insurance?
This whole Trump creates larger deficits, so Bernie should too is a pretty crappy platform too. Trump's deficit spending in good economic times is very concerning to a lot of people, and will inevitably blow up.