Sen. Sanders Calls For ‘A Couple Hundred Thousand’ To Come To Washington
- Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:10pm by
Mike Opelka
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Is an American Senator calling for mass protests in Washington DC? It certainly sounded like that yesterday. During an appearance on the MSNBC 6pm ratings nadir hosted by Cenk Uygur, Senator Sanders made this statement;
I don’t believe the Senator is calling for increased tourism. It would seem that he is hoping for some sort of mass protest.
And then there is the old shared sacrifice, ‘taxing the rich’ chant. According to Senator Sanders, despite paying more than 40% of all the income tax collected, the ‘rich’ are not paying enough. Based on another statement by Sanders, he also believes that the taxes paid by those fortunate enough to be considered wealthy are not helping at all;
‘They have not contributed one nickel to deficit reduction.’
Really? Not one nickel?
He is technically correct as the deficit cannot be reduced if spending continues to outpace tax collections. Therefore, it would also be fair to say that the other 99% of tax paying Americans have not contributed a nickel to deficit reduction either.
In terms of a ‘shared sacrifice,’ the fortunate high-earners have given the government considerable amounts of cash. Here’s a handy fact for the Senator, the top 1% of all wage earners are paying more income tax than the bottom 95% combined.
And just looking at Federal income taxes collected, you can see a massive imbalance with 70% of all taxes paid by 10% of the people working population.
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Comments (80)
mickrussom
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:27pmWe did , its called the tea party protests you commie rat vermin sanders. Even Ben and Jerry are SELL OUTS, you are all greedy power hungry fakes who hate america, screw vermont.
Report Post »Glenn in Virginia
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:23pmColonel Sanders was a lot smarter!
Report Post »BigPaulie
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:13pmAs usual, another idiot democrat. Are all these fools clueless???
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 2:01amBigPaulie says….
As usual, another idiot democrat. Are all these fools clueless???
They are idiots, but they know full-well what they are doing, Big.
The present situation we find ourselves in is because of the lack of knowledge of our Founders and why they constructed our Republic as they did. This is what 50+ years of not properly teaching
our form of government and why it was formed as it was has gotten us.
I fear the violence we may well see. What Bernie was saying is what the far-left will need (think Wisconsin, and worse) if enough Americans wake up to their game. You will see all of the Socialist left organize either openly or behind the scenes to drive demonstrations and/or violent protests.
All of this is why it is incumbent upon Constitutional Conservatives to be able to articulate why the path we are on will lead to our destruction.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:57pmwe can tell him to kiss our ass……no go ……..have a nice American cook out day ! don’t fall for thic communist call for revolution .- all we have to do is to impeach obama and vote new government in …American people who honor our Costitution not marxist manual ! the hell wih all the marxist communsits in USA …….gang of dictators…and freeloaders loooking for money and power to inslave people ! communsit are garbage and garbage must be clean up
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GeorgieJo
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:52pmSen Sanders?
Report Post »Call doofus GE JeffyEmmelding HAVE HIM pay some TAXES!!!!!!!!!
KL
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:46pmLike I have said before, stupid people should NOT vote, this is what we get! They are also the same people that watch this channel!
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:54pmGo pee up a rope.
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:46pmShowtime
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:30pm
It is NOT that people are not paying enough. It is that the government is spending too much because it has gotten too big for its britches!
@Robert-CA ~
KFC sounds great, but I just scoffed down two banana sandwiches, a cup of hot chocolate, and am working on a big glass of tea. In about 30 minutes, I’m going to polish it off with some ice cream.
Showtime, I love your posts, but banana sandwiches? icky-poo! ;)
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 2:28amhehe Americanstrega: Don’t knock banana sandwiches until you try them. Elvis loved banana and peanut butter sandwiches. I prefer ham over peanut butter. How ’bout you Showtime?
Report Post »NOBALONEY
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:42pmThe democratic demagoges are frantic over Paul Ryan’s proposed 4 trillion plus budget cuts in the next five to ten years. Sanders calling for a mass demonstation, to show that the rich are not taxed enough, and that the proposed cuts are not in line with shared sacrifices. Pelosi comment about Ryan’s plan was, “3 million seniors will starve”. On july 24,2009 speaker pelosi commenting on the health care bill said, “cap on costs, no cap on benefits”. It’s hype, and fear mongering verses the truth has no agenda.
Report Post »JustaThought
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:41pmYou conservatives out there … in other the words the ones with brains and common sense enough to know and hear a lie when you read and hear one … this is what we are up against. And maybe that sounds like a good thing. But you have to realize that there are idiots (i.e. Liberals, Barry Juice drinkers and Obama Butt-lickers) who hear this crap from the likes of someone brain-dead like this person and they eat it up and believe it and go out repeat every word to other brain-dead voters without ever fact-checking a single statement.
I keep thinking about the 2008 election and how in some states Obama won those states simply because too many Republican voters just stayed home. The Koolaid drinkers were bused in while the Republicans just said, “Oh … I just don’t know about McCain. I’m not gonna vote this year.”
We have to show up more and sound out more and out talk, out teach and out educate these morons until the more elections we vote in the less of them there are. Less in line to vote and less and less running for office. We have to outnumber them so much until one day many more of us than them are able to recognize the Truths of Conservatism, the Goodness in Hard Earned Work, the Greatness in our Founders’ Intentions of the Constitution and the Common Sense in not falling for nor believing in a bunch of Liberals Lies and False Promises.
And then …. when we greatly outnumber them … and we are in line to vote … we get a few of us to distract the poll officers and policemen while a few more of us just walk up and slap the sh_t out of these idiots until they wake up or go comatose. If they wake up we welcome them to our side. If comatose … who’ll know the difference?
Report Post »I am honestly beginning to believe that Liberals begin their days by having someone inject them with heavy doses of dumbass. They wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up and … hell .. if it walked up.
Rayblue
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:04pmA lot of people who had not voted in a long time voted in the last election. Believe me.
Report Post »But I personally believe that voter fraud was a major factor in the outcome.
Remember Al Frankin. Just like the unions stuffing the ballot boxes in Wisconsin right now.
Oathkeeper1775
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:41pmWreckless person;
if he gets his way, his freedoms will be of the first freedoms to go
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:40pmHe wants 200 thousand people to ‘gather’
on a weekend day
or,
after 5:00 p.m., –Right?
If not, perhaps he’s banking on unemployed and welfare recipients in mass.
>He couldn’t possibly expect 200 thousand to skip work.
Report Post »roadhog
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:34pmSocialium is Brain deorder.
Report Post »ladyda
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:34pmAll these leftist hacks are the same, always trying to divide people….always ranting and spewing class warfare; always causing as much racial tension as possible…creating as many “victims” and Government dependents as they can. If the voters of these destructive politicians would learn to empower themselves and to be as self reliant as possible, creeps like this one would be out of a job and our country would not be in such a financial disaster.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:45pmDivide and conquer!
>Obama did make his formal announcement of his 2012 run; on the anniversary of MLK jr’s assassination.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:32pmSanders looks a bit TOO extra crispy.
Report Post »He reminds me of a budget rate Nikita who forgot to take his medication this morning.
ConservativeVermonter
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:30pmVermont grunted, pushed hard, and out came Bernie swirling around the bowl. That explains his hair
Report Post »michaeljay
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:01amIs there still moonlight in Vermont? Used to fish there as a kid but I am afraid to go back. Heard there is a check point at the border.
Report Post »TheGreyPiper
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:29pmGod, do the leftards EVER have one original thought?
Report Post »ConservativeVermonter
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:29pmSuch a lunatic. Vile, vile man. I am ashamed to admit he is my state’s senator. But proud to point out that I did not vote for him. I would have much rather had the corrupt Richie Tarrant than Sanders.
I’ve always wanted to ask Bernie, at what income should people lose their freedoms and rights? I mean, I have a right to earn an income and do what I want with it, according to Bernie- unless I make too much, then I do not have the same rights. I wish he would clarify what the cutoff is, how that is determined, and who makes that determination.
Also, Sanders is a millionaire. How come he doesn’t feel the need to give up his accumulated personal wealth for the benefit of the poor? He could simply donate it to charity, or pick a few lucky families, or just give it to his favorite organization the IRS. Come on, Bernie! Lead by action instead of cheap words!
Report Post »decendentof56
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 1:37amConservativevermonter says…..
“I’ve always wanted to ask Bernie, at what income should people lose their freedoms and rights?”
And therein lies the problem, Conservativevermonter…. Sanders believes that rights are given by man. That is whats now ailing our country.
Even if you are not religious, you/we have to remember that the Founders believed that rights were given by God, NOT man. If you believe that rights are granted by man, then man can take them. remember…”endowed by their creator with certain ‘unalienable’ rights”, not ‘endowed by man/government with rights as they see fit’.
I always say to religious skeptics that even if you don’t believe in the Creator, you certainly should be able to believe in the principles in the Ten Commandments. You know, the Thou Shalt Not’s. If anyone will not believe in God ‘or’ the Ten Commandments, then what exactly do they use for their moral compass? I would like to ask the very condescending Bill Mahar that one.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:28pmSince there are more Govt jobs than in manufacturing, plus the entrenched Welfare State I guess less than half of INCOME tax-paying citizens support more than Half the Country. Crazy. What are these loons going to do when they ‘break’ us? Who is going to pay?
Report Post »Justthefactsmam
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:27pmThe problem with libatards is that “shared”sacrifice means that those that make money then re-invest it in their business are harming the country because they do not pay their “fair share” The problem is that a “fair share” is a sliding scale based on how much money you have,,,evediently paying 40% of your income vs 0% for almost half of american tax payers is “fair”…to quote the bible, and yes I know tht is not PC, Jesus wept…
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:26pm200 thousand aint sh@#. Becks 8-28 is the measuring stick
Report Post »r304indy
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:55amNo John Stewarts was and it did not pimp Dr. Kings memory.
Report Post »shelly11369
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:24pmCalls for a couple hundred thousand to go to Washington D.C. on PMSNBC…ya might get 2
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:24pmThis idiot is playing on the minds of people that have no understanding of the facts. I have and never will be wealthy but I do not resent anyone that is. I think that it is wrong to punish success and reward those that do nothing. I understand the frustration but think it to be a waste of time to worry about someone elses lifestyle other than my own. Happiness does not neccessarily come with having money. Greed and jealously only ruin your life if you allow it to. When you actually see the charts and percentages you have to realize that this country depends on the taxes paid by the rich and is what keeps us going.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:35pm” I think that it is wrong to punish success and reward those that do nothing.”
That’s called “spreading the wealth.” They want to strip people of their money, put it into their own pockets, and make everybody work for what the government GIVES them.
What the government can provide, the government can also take away. And, I’m just wondering when the brown shirts are coming for the seniors, the conservatives, and the veterans!
Report Post »tierrah
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:22pmI do not agree with Sanders or his ilk. Are these people for real? I’d love to check his annual finances and dictate how much he should pay!!!!
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:49pmAmen!
Report Post »Physicist_In_Training
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:18pmI just read an interesting point in one of Sowell’s books about the “rich.” He pointed out that a common fallacy is to confuse income with wealth, when in fact the two can often be completely disjoint. Yet, when people say “tax the rich,“ they consistently mean ”raise income taxes on those who are currently in the upper income brackets.” A very interesting point; I strongly recommend to anyone to pick up Sowell’s books or look him up online.
Report Post »DaveOregon
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:14pmSanders is a avowed communist. You listen to this demented idiot? I think he was elected because they wanted the “village” idiot of the state. Thanks for nothing!
Report Post »Fina Biscotti
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:18pmHe is an avowed SOCIALIST –
Report Post »who should not be allowed to hold office – since his ideologies contradict the US Constitution.
Robert-CA
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:19pmI was just thinking of what to eat , I’m going to KFC .
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:20pmWhy do people keep electing Senators such as him who only seek their own base of power, and then when something goes wrong – such as the 2010 elections, decry foul and want massive protests and demonstrations in DC and elsewhere they can put pressure on the system.
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:22pmCorrect. Sanders is one of the few socialists who will actually ADMIT that he’s a socialist, while the rest hide behind the Democratic party: http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/03/socialism-explained.html He’s just more brazen about it than the rest.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:23pmGot 9 mins Sanders ?
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661pi6K-8WQ
Some people know in advance what horseyexcretes like Sanders will say some day
and they make a video for them …
Showtime
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:30pmIt is NOT that people are not paying enough. It is that the government is spending too much because it has gotten too big for its britches!
@Robert-CA ~
Report Post »KFC sounds great, but I just scoffed down two banana sandwiches, a cup of hot chocolate, and am working on a big glass of tea. In about 30 minutes, I’m going to polish it off with some ice cream.
MiketheTrucker
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:33pmHe wants a couple hundred thousand? I’m certain the Tea Party could arrange that.
And when we invade D.C. we need to enact laws prohibiting “socialists” and “communists” from even running for office. This is AMERICA not Cuba or France.
Socialism FAILS, always!
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:52pmOne look at this loon and you can see that he is senile. Since congress is the national insane asylum, he appears to be getting his medication.
Report Post »ronaldg261
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 10:52pmDoes Vermont really have enough morons who elect this guy over and over again? Who are these people?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:07pmThis Sanders is an insult to KFC although he does look Fried!!
Report Post »sissykatz
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:20pmYou know, it would really help if the Senate and House members and all the czars and Obama’s staff all just paid any taxes. It would be amazing how much we could collect.
Report Post »jeffp605
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:21pmWell it’s not like any of them will be working !
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 5, 2011 at 11:25pmROBERT-CA
I was thinking about a ham sandwich
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:02amWhy Bernie…you are such a cute lil’ Communist…Obama is probably so proud of you, huh?
CatB
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:13amDoes he want the TEA Party to come and protest the GOVERNMENT WASTING OUR MONEY?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:15amLOL .. I was kidding .. but that is what SHOULD happen .. but they just ignore us when we do or tell lies .. we are doing much better contacting congress … to quote Harry Reid today ..“ the HOUSE has been taken over by the TEA Party” good .. can you hear us now?!!!!
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 12:18amYou tell ‘em Sanders! That damned Pelosi, Reid, Kerry, Clinton, Grayson, Soros, etc. Those Dems getting rich on the backs of the poor and sick. Pathetic!
Report Post »freeus
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 1:17amMaybe your Communist friends will come through for you, Bernie.
Report Post »VermontPatriot
Posted on April 6, 2011 at 5:19pm@RonaldG This state is overfowing with welfares, the unemployed,
and flatlanders, so bad that us real Vermonters are dwindling away.
Our local governments are overrun with people that moved here
from out of state, hence the term Flatlanders or Massholes.
Rural Vermont is still hard working and independant. The cities
are infected with liberalism.
They don’t call Vermont the Socialist Utopia for nothing!
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