The last three days, I’ve been writing about how Bernie cooked his goose with his promise to raise taxes. Many of my friends (just kidding, I have no KOS friends since I starting criticizing Bernie) laughed when I shared that Bernie messed-up his General Election plans with, “we will raise taxes, yes we will.”
Hmmm, ain’t happening.
Nancy Pelosi Said:
"We're not running on any platform of raising taxes," Pelosi said during a press briefing to launch the Democrats' yearly issues conference in Baltimore, Md. "We do want to have a fairer tax system, and … we hope that we can do that this year."
“We will raise taxes, yes we will,” Sanders said during a Democratic town hall in Des Moines, Iowa.
But Bernie Explained the Benefits Of SP:
“The individual savings achieved under his healthcare plan would offset the costs of the tax increase. He called critics of the strategy “disingenuous.”
But Pelosi explained it ain’t happening:
"He's talking about a single-payer, and that's not going to happen. I mean, does anybody in this room think that we're going to be discussing a single-payer?" she asked. "I've been for single-payer for 30 years, and it is a very popular idea in our country. But we have made a decision about where we're going on healthcare."
… "We have a very realistic plan that's out there," she said. "Can it be improved upon? Everything can. But it's no use having a conversation about something that's not going to happen.
"Right now we're proud of what we have," she said, "and want to build upon that."
Guys, I’ll say it again, Bernie can’t even convince the most progressive warriors in the Congress to support his plans.
Nancy nor Obama will forfeit the “small” gains on the progressive agenda with the promise of higher taxes and bigger government.
At some point, we have to realize that this site is not representative of how most Americans think. Moderates, independents, republicans, blue dog Dems will all go to the polls and we have to be “somewhat” appealing to all of them to actually get something done.