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| Sanders calls for wealth tax at AFL-CIO convention |
| 2014-09-07 |
| [WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... , a self-described socialist, called for a progressive estate tax on multi-millionaires and billionaires during a speech on Saturday. "A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much while so many have so little," Mr. Sanders said at the Vermont AFL-CIO annual convention. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #17 Back when jokes were funny, and it was OK to laugh: Recently attempted to de facto ban artisan cheese Booze will disqualify you from health care milk/sugar is double bad and banned Its like the Tom Hanksathon last night; can't show Bachelor Party anymore. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2014-09-07 18:39 |
| #16 #6 or we could tax luxuries like artisan cheese, single malt scotch, non caffeine lattes, Cabernet wine Nooooooooooo! Not the single malt scotch. That, you must not touch! |
| Posted by: Sonny Glarong6820 2014-09-07 18:08 |
| #15 A tax based on intellectual property values (and not on sales) might be more Adam smith capitalist. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-09-07 15:50 |
| #14 a movie ticket tax would be appropriate |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-09-07 15:42 |
| #13 For starters, why not a sales tax for all those Hollywood projects that never show a net profit? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-09-07 15:34 |
| #12 Interesting words from a man who has over 7 million dollars in his campaign finance account. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2014-09-07 15:11 |
| #11 And yet the rich are the only ones doing well during the dhimocrat's reign. The middle class and the poor are losing wealth at an alarming rate. All by design. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-09-07 11:33 |
| #10 Doesn't Reich the malignant dwarf make about a quarter mil a year for teaching one class a week? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-09-07 11:02 |
| #9 a self-described socialist... Oh, a another Democrat figuring out ways to steal more money from the folks out here. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-09-07 10:37 |
| #8 #6 ... or a 'progressive' tax on campaign contributions by individuals, organizations, and pacs running from 5 percent to 200 percent based on the amount 'given'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-07 10:23 |
| #7 they can spend on lawyers and accountants and politicians FIFY Phil |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-09-07 09:15 |
| #6 or we could tax luxuries like artisan cheese, single malt scotch, non caffeine lattes, Cabernet wine |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-09-07 09:04 |
| #5 Make no mistake, progressives have eyed the hundreds of billions residing in IRA's and thrifty saver's portfolios for years. The feckless beltway thieves cannot responsibly execute the existing budget. Why give them a farthing more ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-07 06:58 |
| #4 The USA already has hefty federal and state inheritance taxes, although with large exemptions. Unlike Canada which has none at all. The problem is that the more money someone has the more they can spend on lawyers and accountants to avoid paying the tax. Not only do wealth taxes not work, they harm the economy by channeling money offshore and into unproductive assets. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2014-09-07 05:53 |
| #3 Mr. Reich, just which party have the idle, inherited rich tended to support in the past thirty or so years? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-09-07 05:50 |
| #2 Um, senator..... You do not have the intelligence or the moral authority to make a judgement like that. Nobody does. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-09-07 05:47 |
| #1 Thou shall covet Key tenet of socialism, followed by - Thou shall steal. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-09-07 00:08 |