Did anyone watch this on Fox?
Here are the videos if you care to watch it:
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ozAACcc8I
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnxuzDm7C0
My impression: Bernie sounds like a nice guy. His speech patterns reminds me of Nixon though.
He had a lot of ideas that people seemed to like in the audience, like Healthcare for all, College for all, etc. but when asked how they would be paid for he couldn't really answer. He finally admitted that yes the people would be paying for them with higher taxes.
He seemed really good on the pie in the sky promises and not so good on the follow through.
He released his tax returns before the town hall. Looks like he made over $500K last year but only paid 21% income tax on it (took advantage of Trump's tax cut) and only gave around 4% to charity. So it seems he is a great capitalist. And when they asked him why didn't he give more to charity or even pay extra taxes like he says the rich should be paying, he went "PFFFT" and laughed it off. He was also unapologetic for making half a million on selling his book and even plugged the book as "it's a good book you should read it" (the book is about socialism ironically)
So basically what I came away with was "Do as I say, not as I do"
Here are the videos if you care to watch it:
Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4ozAACcc8I
Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnxuzDm7C0
My impression: Bernie sounds like a nice guy. His speech patterns reminds me of Nixon though.
He had a lot of ideas that people seemed to like in the audience, like Healthcare for all, College for all, etc. but when asked how they would be paid for he couldn't really answer. He finally admitted that yes the people would be paying for them with higher taxes.
He seemed really good on the pie in the sky promises and not so good on the follow through.
He released his tax returns before the town hall. Looks like he made over $500K last year but only paid 21% income tax on it (took advantage of Trump's tax cut) and only gave around 4% to charity. So it seems he is a great capitalist. And when they asked him why didn't he give more to charity or even pay extra taxes like he says the rich should be paying, he went "PFFFT" and laughed it off. He was also unapologetic for making half a million on selling his book and even plugged the book as "it's a good book you should read it" (the book is about socialism ironically)
So basically what I came away with was "Do as I say, not as I do"
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