Bernie Sanders want to raise taxes on everybody to fund family leave!

[rg17]

He wants to raise taxes on everybody!

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/politi...-family-leave/

[William Tell]

Instead of eliminating most taxes so people could afford to spend more time with their families.

[Tunink]

Instead of eliminating most taxes so people could afford to spend more time with their families.

Well that's because ultimately you will need permission from your "gold star participation prize" overlords to get a break from your duty to the homeland.

[brandon]

I already have a better version of this through my job. 100% salary for 8 weeks. I guess he wants to tax me to make sure other people can have it too. Honestly It's a really nice benefit and should be a lot more common in the US. This isn't his worst proposal.

Not sure how the numbers add up though. I'll assume there's some math backing it up I don't see yet.

Pay in 0.2% salary for 30 years = 6% of 1 year pay.
Two kids, 24 weeks at 66% = 26% of 1 year pay.

[staerker]

Result of required double-income families. Government solution to a government problem.

[Liberty74]

Feel the Bern...that is Bernie's GREEDY hands in your pockets - $#@!.

This just goes to show that Socialists are violent by philosophy and that no matter how many trillions they steal and print and borrow, it will never be enough. It's why Europe is in crisis mode financially.

Socialists are apparently the biggest discriminators too. So single, childless people will have to pay even more taxes to support other families?

[Ronin Truth]

Free family leave, what a deal. How many votes will that buy you Bernie?

Be sure to put that in the bottom of that big hole too.

[RandPaul4Prez]

* wants

[Keith and stuff]

Unless he hands over the tax money to businesses, I don't see it working. Perhaps he lost his mind?

[cindy25]

this could be done voluntarily, by the private sector. either as direct payment or employee benefit.