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Not very, it seems.
If the point of Bernie's campaign is to build support for his agenda so that it could actually come to pass someday, he doesn't seem to be succeeding even among his own supporters: Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution.
This is a reality the far left is going to need to address at some point (ironically, Vermont itself was the canary in the coal mine on this one two years ago) and I'm not seeing much of a plan for what to do about it.
If the point of Bernie's campaign is to build support for his agenda so that it could actually come to pass someday, he doesn't seem to be succeeding even among his own supporters: Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution.
Sanders's plan would put an additional $5,000 of federal tax liability on households earning $50,000, but in exchange he would nationalize vital services currently in the private sector.
That means at least some of the money we're now paying private companies would be paid to the federal government instead.
But the majority of Sanders supporters in our poll (much less all voters) aren't willing to pay enough to actually support those nationalized services.
About 66 percent of Sanders supporters said they wouldn't be willing to pay more than an additional $1,000 in taxes for universal health care. This includes the 8 percent of Sanders supporters who aren't willing to pay anything at all.
Sanders supporters are far and away the most likely to want free public college tuition. Still, 14 percent said they don't want to pay additional taxes for it — and another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year:
This is a reality the far left is going to need to address at some point (ironically, Vermont itself was the canary in the coal mine on this one two years ago) and I'm not seeing much of a plan for what to do about it.