Opinion of Bernie's Income Tax Plan?

[RaphaelDLG]

I already pay thousands of dollars with current rates -there is no ing way I would ever vote for a candidate with this tax plan that would make me pay thousands of dollars more, though I can easily understand why young people would be attracted to it, since they don't yet have full-time jobs that would require them to pay such high rates, so it isn't real to them. 

What if you got healthcare that was overall substantially cheaper due to medicare's bargaining power in exchange for your higher taxes, causing your take-home pay to rise slightly?

For some folk, they make enough money and pay enough taxes that single-payer is a bad deal, but overall for most middle class and working class people single-payer saves them money.  IDK what you are, if you live in NOVA and are a Yuppie (no disrespect, you seem like the competent smart professional type) you may be one of the small group of people hurt by an uncapped medicare payroll tax.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Atlas Forum poster RFayette displayes an unstable worldview–demonstrated by regular, extreme changes in belief–and a strong proclivity toward hateful emotions and rhetoric in all incarnations.

Yeah, that's the sort of person who joins Daesh. Certainly he's by far the likeliest poster on this site to do that.

I believe it is also true that an unusually high percentage of ISIS recruits were engineering students or engineers. Troubling...

[RINO Tom]

Absolute and utter garbage. The way Bernie and liberal groups have talked lately would make one think that "the rich" don't pay any taxes at all, when in reality, they pay the overwhelming majority of federal income tax already.

It's all about taking money from people who have earned it and giving it to people who have not.

My wife and I would literally have 27% of our income redistributed away from us, just by the Feds. Add in state income taxes and property taxes and you're looking at almost 40%. This means that all my work from January 1 to almost the end of May would be working to earn money for other people, and that doesn't even factor in payroll taxes. And then, after that's implemented, the left will still think taxes are too low.

Does it get more "entitled" than living in a developed country, benefiting from public services and (relatively) non-corrupt governance, and expecting not to pay for any of this? That is exactly what rhetoric about working until whatever date "to earn money for other people" implies.

It's Randian garbage, and few trends in American politics have been more corrosive to our politics than the emergence of this narrative as a leading concern for middle-class households. Living in this country, working in this country, being a citizen of the United States means accepting the obligations that come with that, including paying taxes on your income. It's a shame that even Democrats are afraid to talk about this in terms of our national duties.

Actually, I would argue that the actual libertarians oppose tax increases because they don't think the programs paid for by those programs should even exist - based on their understanding of economics (that these programs are economically efficient and thus undesirable from a social welfare perspective). That stance I disagree with but can 100% respect.

I am much less sanguine on the upper-middle-class liberal suburbanites who just don't want to pay for the programs they want.

You have a very odd and, well, quite made up definition of this word.  It pretty much seems to mean "attitudes you don't like."

[Intell]

http://www.bernietax.com/

Actual tax plan.