Not that I think there’s anything wrong about it, but from what I understand this is his third house. I’m sure plenty of mid career engineers have a cottage but not a lot of them have a $600 000 cottage on the lake for when they need a break from their other two houses.
In this thread it has been pointed several times that the Sanders sold one of their 2 houses to get the one being discussed here, so this would be their “new” second house, there is no third one now AFAIK.
No, it’s been pointed out that they just sold a house they recently inherited that was located in Maine. I assume he already had a residence in Vermont.
Yes, but I’m going for what **Wesley Clark **pointed out.
Not unusual for a Senator to have a house in his home state and one in DC. In fact, it’s probably abnormal for it to be otherwise. Sanders then inherits a 3rd home, which they sell and buy a replacement for. BFD. He makes $174K/year.
And yet Kim Kardashian can pay millions of dollars for a new house that she earned by having a fat ass* and it’s considered an accomplishment.
*I think that’s it anyway, I really don’t really know why Kim Kardashian is even a name I see and hear so often.
Wesley Clark did not say Sanders has two houses. He’s wondering if the third house is a rental property for some reason.
Because Mr. Sanders is not practicing the socialism that he so ardently preaches.
• Sanders owns 3 homes
• Sanders pays less than 14% on earnings north of $200,000; using the same “tricks” that he admonishes the rich for using, to take over $60,000 in deductions from his taxable income.
• Sanders gave less that 5% of his income to charity.
• Despite preaching about the importance of a $15 minimum wage, Sanders pays his staffers less than $13 an hour.
Like Hillary and Trump, Sanders is another snake oil salesman.
Socialism never works, except for those administering it.
Yawn.
“Yawn” is just about the extent of a logical retort in which I expected from a Sanders worshipper. Thanks for refusing to disappoint.
There’s nothing wrong with Bernie being a millionaire and calling out the billionaire class – I’m glad that powerful people who have a voice are willing to do that.
Where Bernie went wrong was in somehow suggesting that Hillary Clinton wasn’t qualified to protect the interests of working class people and that she was somehow less authentic.
• Sanders used the same tax deductions that he has so long admonished, and that would no longer exist under his tax plan.
• Sanders has claimed that the rich fail to pay their fair share, meanwhile he pays less than 14% on an over $200,000 income; giving less than 5% to charity.
• Sanders pays his staffers less than $13 an hour, as he has publicly lobbied a $15 minimum wage.
And Sanders says the government should provide health care. But in his twenty-five years in Congress, he has not performed even a single routine medical examination. Obvious hypocrisy.
Has he ever proposed to limit the number of houses people should have?
The home mortgage interest deduction and local tax deduction aren’t tricks. They are used by probably every American who has bought a home and itemizes deductions. He has proposed to limit the mortgage dedication to $300,000 per year. How much of a deduction did he take, exactly?
I honestly don’t know why anyone cares about this. It’s usually right wingers who insist that all the poor can be taken care of by churches and charities, in arguing that the social safety net should be eliminated.
If true, that is quite embarrassing.
I know you’re going to accuse me of being a Sanders supporter, probably because you seem compelled to throw that label at others in the thread who know that most of these points are ad hominem nonsense. But rest assured, my dear Sanders hater, that I am not in any way a fan. I just detest reposts of right-wing blogs spewing shallow accusations of “hypocrisy! hypocrisy! under every rock and stone ther is lib’rul hypocrisy!” to a greater degree than I disagree with Sanders.
Ravenman -
It’s typical of a liberal to label anyone who opposes Bernie Sanders as a “right winger”.
• There is nothing illegal or uncommon about the tax deductions being used by Bernie Sanders. It is however hypocritical for Sanders to use those same deductions, in which he deems “tricks used by the rich”; especially when he not only admonishes them, but eliminates them from his proposed tax plan.
• There’s nothing illegal about Sanders paying less than 15% on more than $200K. It is however hypocritical to admonish the rich for “not paying their fair share”, yet continue to pay a below-average tax rate of his amount of income. One may ask Sanders: “Why aren’t you paying your fair share?”
• Sanders having 3 homes only magnifies his hypocrisies in that he constantly asks: “Why do the rich need X, when there is so much income inequality in the US?” One may ask Sanders: “Why do you need 3 homes?”
• It’s not illegal for Sanders to only give less than 5% if his income to charity. It does however make one scratch their head as to why he isn’t “giving back”, as he challenges so many to do.
• There’s no “if this is true” regarding Sanders’ employee payments. He pays them less than $15 an hour. Again, not illegal; but highly hypocritical.
Exposing Sanders to a Sanders worshipper, is kinda like telling a little kid that Santa Klaus doesn’t exist: “You mean socialism doesn’t really work?”; “You mean that Sanders was only doing this to profit for himself?”
Yes, genius!!!
I’ll bet he even has an account at a bank! :eek:
Uh, I really don’t think you are impressing anyone, John Mace is actually a Libertarian that is a bit on the conservative side, but I will not stop you from insulting the people that could agree with you if you were not straw manning all.
I don’t get this at all; a $millionaire is like £700,000 - any immigrant who came to London 30 years ago and bought a house on cleaners wages is worth more than that. And plenty of Caribbean people did exactly that.
Sanders is like 70 years old and has $600,000 to spend on a home - of course he has.
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Try not posting factually incorrect information, and you might get more than a yawn.
Per Snopes, the $12/hour is for interns, not staffers. Interns often work for free and are not subject to MW.