Bernie Sanders
Latest
-
How Much Will Government Spend Under the Next President?
Read moreOne interesting metric of any budget plan is how much it would increase or reduce federal spending. According to our latest estimates, all candidates...
-
Additional Offsets for Senator Sanders's Health Plan
Read moreThe Sanders campaign has listed additional offsets on their website to pay for the "Medicare-for-all" health plan – most significantly taxation of...
-
Would Sen. Sanders Increase the Government by 40%?
Read moreDuring the Democratic debate on February 11th, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Senator Bernie Sanders’s plans would increase the...
-
Analysis of the Sanders Single-Payer Offsets
Read moreDemocratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) released the outline of a plan to move to a single-payer health care system in the U.S...
-
Does the U.S. Spend $80 Billion a Year on Incarceration?
Read moreAt the third Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said "We are spending $80 billion a year locking up our fellow Americans," using the...
-
Does Significantly Less Than 10 Percent of Defense Spending Go to Fighting International Terrorism?
Read moreDuring the November 14th Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said “We're spending over $600 billion a year on the military and yet...
-
Does the U.S. Spend More Per Person on Health Care Without Better Outcomes?
Read moreIn the November 14 Democratic debate, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said the United States spends more per person on health care than any other major...
-
Is the Real Unemployment Rate 10%?
Read moreIn the Democratic debate on November 14, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that the real unemployment rate was around 10 percent. When Sanders says...
-
Could Eliminating the Payroll Tax Cap Extend Solvency to 2061 and Allow for Expanded Benefits?
Read moreSen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) discussed his plans to increase Social Security benefits and extend the program's solvency.
-
Sanders and Clinton Release Plans to Tackle Prescription Drug Costs
Read moreOver the past few weeks, the two leading Democratic candidates for President, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders (I...