Sanders Endorses Small Tax Hike On All To Fund Family Leave

[240 is Back]

Bernie Sanders says it's not just Wall Street and corporate America that would pay more if he's elected president: All workers would face a slight payroll tax hike.

The Vermont senator who's seeking the Democratic presidential nomination said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the across the board increase would come as part of his push to guarantee paid family leave.

He acknowledged that tax would apply to everyone.

"Yes, it would," he said. "But it would mean that we would join the rest of the industrialized world and make sure that when a mom has a baby, she can, in fact, stay home with that baby for three months rather than go back to work at the end of one week."

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has been elected to the Senate as an independent, has advocated for several other new taxes to pay for his potentially pricey policy proposals.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/politics/bernie-sanders-payroll-tax-hike-family-leave/

[whork]

Bernie Sanders says it's not just Wall Street and corporate America that would pay more if he's elected president: All workers would face a slight payroll tax hike.

The Vermont senator who's seeking the Democratic presidential nomination said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the across the board increase would come as part of his push to guarantee paid family leave.

He acknowledged that tax would apply to everyone.

"Yes, it would," he said. "But it would mean that we would join the rest of the industrialized world and make sure that when a mom has a baby, she can, in fact, stay home with that baby for three months rather than go back to work at the end of one week."

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has been elected to the Senate as an independent, has advocated for several other new taxes to pay for his potentially pricey policy proposals.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/politics/bernie-sanders-payroll-tax-hike-family-leave/

He must be insane

[avxo]

Bernie Sanders says it's not just Wall Street and corporate America that would pay more if he's elected president: All workers would face a slight payroll tax hike.

The Vermont senator who's seeking the Democratic presidential nomination said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the across the board increase would come as part of his push to guarantee paid family leave.

He acknowledged that tax would apply to everyone.

"Yes, it would," he said. "But it would mean that we would join the rest of the industrialized world and make sure that when a mom has a baby, she can, in fact, stay home with that baby for three months rather than go back to work at the end of one week."

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has been elected to the Senate as an independent, has advocated for several other new taxes to pay for his potentially pricey policy proposals.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/politics/bernie-sanders-payroll-tax-hike-family-leave/

The Government gets enough of my money already. It doesn't need to force me to contribute more - at the point of the proverbial gun - to subsidize this sort of shit.

[Irongrip400]

They could find another way to find this type of thing. Instead of just throwing our hands up at the issue of our overspending government, we decide to just throw more taxes for entitlements. I do agree women should stay home for 12 weeks, but the answer isn't taxing the shit out of us to do it.

[240 is Back]

it's funny that giving social security $ to a veteran that worked 50 years in the coal mines is somehow an entitlement/handout..

BUT...

Bumping up taxes on everyone to pay people 3 months to 'take off work' because they voluntarily spread their legs and got down to some baby-making, is somehow an innate right and just plain common sense?


I did the stay-at-home dad thing for a long time.  And I did the "mama goes back after 7 weeks, not 12, because we needed the money" thing.   And in NO way did I ever believe I was "entitled" to another 5 weeks of mama time to help out.  And I cannot imagine any world where I'm on getbig arguing we "deserve" a quarter-year of paid time off work, because we chose to get freaky.