Author Topic: Warren Repeatedly Dodges Question About Middle Class Tax Hike to Finance Medicare for All  (Read 167 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline libertybele

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58,557
  • Gender: Female
  • WE are NOT ok!

Warren Repeatedly Dodges Question About Middle Class Tax Hike to Finance Medicare for All

mocrat presidential front-runner Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) refused several opportunities Tuesday night to answer a yes-or-no question about whether she plans to raise taxes on most Americans to pay for her “gold standard” Medicare for All plan.

"You have not specified how you're going to pay for the most expensive plan, Medicare for All," one of the debate moderators told Warren. "Will you raise taxes on the middle class to pay for it, yes or no?"

Warren responded: "So I have made clear what my principles are here, and that is costs will go up for the wealthy and for big corporations. And for hard-working, middle-class families, costs will go down.”

Warren added that no one should have to worry about how they're going to pay for their health care, especially after a dire diagnosis.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg challenged Warren on her (non)answer:

    Well, we heard it tonight, a yes or no question that didn't get a yes or no answer. Look, this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this..........

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/warren-repeatedly-dodges-question-about-middle-class-tax-hike-finance
I Believe in the United States of America as a Government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.  I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies.