We now know that the Sanders campaign will soon be releasing the details of his single payer health care plan.  As yet we do not know the details.

But with the time remaining before the debate and the release of Bernie’s position paper, I have a very simple question to ask of Hillary’s many defenders here at Dailykos:

If it proves to be a fact that:

(1) One of the components of Bernie’s plan is a proposed increase in the tax bills of Middle Class citizens to cover part of the cost of MedicareForAll, and that

(2) this increase in taxes will be more than offset by a reduction in the cost to Middle Class households of private insurance premiums/deductibles/copays,

(giving Middle Class households a net reduction in their annual healthcare costs)  

...would you as a Hillary Clinton supporter consider it to be immoral if the Clinton campaign were to then proclaim in its ads and speeches that Bernie’s health plan would make their federal taxes go up without explaining the rest of the math: that the Middle Class would actually be spending less on the new taxes than they were spending before on private insurance?

To make my question perfectly clear, would you indeed consider it to be immoral if the campaign were to suggest to voters that Bernie’s plans would make their expenses (taxes) go up without acknowledging at the same time that the extra taxes would be a much cheaper way for them to cover their annual health care expenses?

Would it be immoral and deceptive, in your opinion, to decry the increase in taxes Bernie is going to propose simply to leave voters with the impression that his plan would cost them more, even if there is no rational reason for anyone who knows all the facts to believe that his plan would do such a thing?

Are such misrepresentations of the truth a moral way to conduct a political campaign?

Please take some time to think it over and let me know how you feel about this hypothetical possibility...