of course they will do everything they can to put the bill on the middle class...I'm glad there are people out there fighting this...I don't see why the rich couldn't foot a decent portion of what needs to be done...it's not like they're spending it on anything really important in about 90% of all cases of rich people...

Sadly, Bernie Sanders is just another voice of controlled opposition.

Much like Ron Paul.

He says what people want to hear but none of what he says ever
comes to pass.

It is theater of the absurd, but it has a very wide audience.

Wow this is dope, so much truth behind it and all of these comments are stimulating as well. I truly hope some of the other senators can identify with this and take action.

Can more people please flag this ? I feel it needs to be noticed

Corporate pimps owns the whores in congress so like always congress will only listen to their masters, do not expect anything coming in the way of helping the working class, congress has not done anything for the working class in decades.

Wake up sheeple and smell the rotten government we got right now.

If his position is truly to only close loopholes, I can get behind that. Corporations like GE and Exxon get by without paying, or only paying very little, in taxes. And just about any individual can manipulate the system to do the same thing. Tax revenues in the billions are lost that way and the tax code needs a complete overhaul.

But if his suggestion is tax them more, in particular individuals, he can go hang. Part of the American dream is to be successful and prosperous. But the have-nots want to punish the haves because of jealousy. I'm a have-not and I couldn't care less how much money someone has. So they make more than you or me? That's not our business, and they can do whatever the hell they want with their money, as long as they got it fair and square.

And there are many, I'd say at least half of them, that did get their riches by nothing more underhanded than decades of sweat, hard work and dedication. And people like Progressives want to punish them for living the American dream. People need to grow up and learn to be responsible for their own wealth, for their own well-being, for their own job, for their own everything. Mine is mine and yours is yours and we're square.

/TOA

Shared sacrifice by everybody? Including all those countries we send billions to? How about we start with them. And then, as others have already mentioned, the corporations that leech money and tax revenue off our soil and invest more billions in the Middle East and Asia at our expense and at our "sacrifice." .

Shared sacrifice?

Shut down the Federal Reserve, draft a bill to cancel the debt, take the Federal Reserve notes out of circulation and replace them with debt free US Treasury notes, abolish the income tax and shut down the IRS, shut down all foreign bases, bring all the troops home, station troops on the southern border, abolish the CIA, NSA, get out of the UN, WTO, NAFTA, GATT, apply tariffs on slave made imports… America should be back on her feet bright eyed and bushy tailed in about 2 to 5 years.

Shared sacrifice my butt. America doesn’t have to share anything… only take back what was stolen.