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Bernie Sanders: The new St. Nick
(By - E.J. Dionne, Jr.)
….At a time of rising inequality and short-circuited social mobility, Sanders is unapologetic about taking some wealth and income away from those who have a lot of both to ease the path upward for those who don’t….He would replace our current health-care hodgepodge with a Medicare-for-all single-payer system….And far from cutting Social Security, he wants to expand benefits. Why? Because the decline in employer-guaranteed pensions is leaving many of today’s retirees (and will likely leave most of tomorrow’s) without the retirement security that was once far more common….He’d pay for his new spending with substantial tax increases on the best-off. Read more…
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