The only one lying or distorting anything here is YOU.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/22/u...itch-more-taxes-for-more-government.html?_r=1
So that's $1.38 TRILLION... JUST for the health care. Now add in all of the "free" college and "free" everything else and the $2 Trillion figure I threw out is actually LOW.
This is why the Sanders campaign is such a joke. It appeals to the lazy, the stupid, the unmotivated, the envious, and the easily manipulated. There isn't a snowballs chance in hell any of this stuff would ever pass congress, it would bankrupt us if it did, but yet the Sanders people stand there with that stupid "deer in the headlights" look when confronted by this reality. When pressed, about the best they can offer is... "dude, like the big banks and stuff have turned us into slaves... and stuff".
"The stupid now have a voice!! Vote for Bernie!!"
The money is easy easy ,----Last year, the average working family paid $4,955 in premiums and $1,318 in deductibles to private health insurance companies. Under this plan, a family of four earning $50,000 would pay just $466 per year to the single-payer program, amounting to a savings of over $5,800 for that family each year.
Businesses would save over $9,400 a year in health care costs for the average employee.
The average annual cost to the employer for a worker with a family who makes $50,000 a year would go from $12,591 to just $3,100.
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST AND HOW DO WE PAY FOR IT?
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST?
This plan has been estimated to cost $1.38 trillion per year.
THE PLAN WOULD BE FULLY PAID FOR BY:
A 6.2 percent income-based health care premium paid by employers.
Revenue raised: $630 billion per year.
A 2.2 percent income-based premium paid by households.
Revenue raised: $210 billion per year.
This year, a family of four taking the standard deduction can have income up to $28,800 and not pay this tax under this plan.
A family of four making $50,000 a year taking the standard deduction would only pay $466 this year.
Progressive income tax rates.
Revenue raised: $110 billion a year.Under this plan the marginal income tax rate would be:
37 percent on income between $250,000 and $500,000.
43 percent on income between $500,000 and $2 million.
48 percent on income between $2 million and $10 million. (In 2013, only 113,000 households, the top 0.08 percent of taxpayers, had income between $2 million and $10 million.)
52 percent on income above $10 million. (In 2013, only 13,000 households, just 0.01 percent of taxpayers, had income exceeding $10 million.)
Taxing capital gains and dividends the same as income from work.
Revenue raised: $92 billion per year.
Now this definitely doesn't hurt anyone I'm concerned about. Not one meal missed, not one bill not paid and both business and people come out ahead. It leans on the people that have had a free ride in this country.