Nina Turner on How to Make the Democratic Party Great Again

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98. He did call for an increase in payroll taxes...I thought it was for tuition but it was paid leave

My mistake...but I was correct in that he wanted to raise payroll taxes as a means to pay for family leave...I still object to giving rich kids free tuition by the way which he did advocate for.


"Bernie Sanders says it's not just Wall Street and corporate All workers would face a slight payroll tax hike.
The Vermont senator who's seeking the Democratic presidential nomination said Sunday on ABC's "This Week" that the across the board increase would come as part of his push to guarantee paid family leave.
Sanders touted a measure sponsored in the Senate by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York that would impose a new 0.2% payroll tax to finance family leave payments. The proposal would allow workers to get up to 66% of their salaries as paid family leave for up to 12 weeks.
He acknowledged that tax would apply to everyone.
"Yes, it would," he said. "But it would mean that we would join the rest of the industrialized world and make sure that when a mom has a baby, she can, in fact, stay home with that baby for three months rather than go back to work at the end of one week."
Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist who has been elected to the Senate as an independent, has advocated for several other new taxes to pay for his potentially pricey policy proposals."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/18/politics/bernie-sanders-payroll-tax-hike-family-leave/