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While Hillary Clinton is attacking, in Republican fashion, proposed tax increases by Bernie Sanders to pay for Medicare for all, a Sanders staffer declares Clinton’s plan “Republican-lite”.
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A senior aide to Sen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday characterized Hillary Clinton’s latest tax plans as “tentative half-steps that sound Republican-lite,” escalating the sparring between the Democratic presidential campaigns over their respective commitments to helping the middle class.
“Given the disappearing middle class and massive income wealth inequality in America today, we clearly have to go a lot further than what Secretary Clinton proposes,” Sanders’s communications director, Michael Briggs, said in a statement issued Sunday night as Sanders campaigned here.
And, not shockingly, Hillary has hesitated to tax the wealthy more:
Sanders also talked up his support of a plan to expand Social Security benefits by increasing taxes paid into the program by those who earn more than $250,000 a year. Clinton has said she is willing to consider the idea but has not committed to “scrap the cap,” as progressive activists call the plan.
Another day, more Bernie positions that would improve the average American’s life, while Hillary seems to be very, very wary of irritating the rich. Hmm. Wonder why?