tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post3554582384439137582..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Sanders: Clinton can't lead a Political RevolutionBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-36107528927104774162016-06-14T13:21:38.302-07:002016-06-14T13:21:38.302-07:00How Bernie Sanders is FOR regular working people; ...How Bernie Sanders is FOR regular working people; and how Hillary Clinton is NOT Bernie Sanders's plan for expanding Social Security benefits for retirees and the disabled (and to extend the life of the trust fund) lifts the cap of $118,000 a year to $250,000 — which only affects the top 5% of wage earners. (Obama was for this in 2008 when he ran against Clinton, who has always opposed this.)<br /><br />https://berniesanders.com/issues/strengthen-and-expand-social-security/ <br /><br />Bernie Sanders's Medicare for All healthcare plan would be 2.2 percent income-based premium paid by households in their payroll taxes. A family of four making $50,000 a year (taking the standard deduction) would only pay $466 year. This is less expensive than insurance premiums and co-pays with ObamaCare. (Clinton calls this "pie in the sky", but the U.S. is the only major industrialize nation that doesn't have a similar plan because of lobbying by the healthcare industry.<br /><br />https://berniesanders.com/issues/medicare-for-all/<br /><br />Bernie Sanders's plan for free public college tuition (Trump's kids would still go to Ivy League Universities) imposes a tiny financial transaction tax on big Wall Street speculators — like the banks who ripped us that we bailed out and fined for mortgage fraud. (We already know all about Clinton's ties to Wall Street.) <br /><br />https://berniesanders.com/issues/its-time-to-make-college-tuition-free-and-debt-free/<br /><br />Bernie Sanders wants to raise the minimum wage to a "living wage" of $15 an hour because it's just not teenagers who are working summer jobs at McDonalds anymore, it's college graduates with student debt — with many who are raising children. (Clinton says she'll "support" $12 an hour.) https://berniesanders.com/issues/a-living-wage/ Offshoring our manufacturing base to Asia has decimated our job market and turned our economy into a service economy with mostly low-paying part-time/TEMP jobs — Wage data shows 50 percent of wage earners had net compensation less than or equal to the median wage, which is estimated to be $28,851 a year — X2 for dual-income household incomes = about what the "median household income" is today. (The Clintons supported all the trade deals that offhshored all our best jobs.)<br /><br />https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/netcomp.cgi?year=2014Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com