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Bernie Sanders Responds to SOTU: Trump Forgot to Mention Climate Change
Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders accused President Donald Trump of omitting one “of the most important issues facing our country and the entire world” from the Tuesday State of the Union: climate change. The Vermont senator and self-proclaimed socialist delivered his own response to Trump’s address to the nation after failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams delivered the… -
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Instead of Criticizing Walmart, Sanders Should Praise the Company for Giving Workers More Paid Time Off
The other day, I gave my 5-year-old daughter a cookie and she complained, “I didn’t want just one.” Walmart—the largest employer in the United States—recently announced that it would provide a new, paid time off bank for workers. It will allow Walmart’s roughly 1.5 million U.S. workers to accumulate up to 48 hours of paid… -
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Many Millions of Americans Work and Shop at Walmart. So, Why Does Bernie Sanders Want to Stop Them?
Sen. Bernie Sanders is back again, with yet another attempt to indirectly mandate the $15 an hour minimum wage. It’s called the Stop WALMART Act, or Stop Welfare for Any Large Monopoly Amassing Revenue from Taxpayers Act. It would affect large (500-plus employees) companies, and among other things would prohibit them from buying back stock… -
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Bernie Sanders Blames Republicans for Our Debt Situation. He’s Only Half-Right.
Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who sits as the ranking member on the Senate Budget Committee, recently released a report blaming the entirety of the federal government’s fiscal woes since the year 2000 on Republicans. To put it crudely, he’s half-right. Republicans deserve a significant portion of blame for our transition from budget surpluses to huge deficits…. -
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Bernie Sanders’ Misguided Amazon Bill Would Backfire on Workers
No single company gets perhaps as much attention in the news as Amazon. The online retailing giant has surpassed $1 trillion in market value and is now searching for a city to place its second headquarters. Amazon has done enormous good in making Americans’ lives more convenient. But not everyone is a fan. Sen. Bernie… -
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New Study Shows Huge Cost of Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan
Socialism is expensive. In a new cost analysis, Charles Blahous, formerly a member of the Medicare board of trustees, concludes that Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” bill (S. 1804) would cost a breathtaking $32.6 trillion over 10 years. Given the growing commitment of House and Senate Democrats to this agenda, Blahous’ analysis is… -
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Bernie Sanders Says the System Is ‘Rigged.’ Here’s What Adam Smith Would Say.
Adam Smith, the 18th-century intellectual founder of modern free-market economics, famously called the economic system he advocated “the obvious and simple system of natural liberty.” Smith defended natural liberty on the grounds that it offered the best chance for sustained economic growth. That was important to him because robust economic growth offered the best security… -
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Podcast: Why Bernie Sanders’ Guaranteed Jobs Plan Would Backfire
Sen. Bernie Sanders is back with another socialist plan. The Heritage Foundation’s David Kreutzer explains why pledging jobs for all is not going to lead to one big happily ever after for Americans. Plus: Yale students are embracing emotional support animals. -
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Bernie Sanders’ ‘Jobs’ Program Would Undo Our Real Economic Progress
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ big-idea solution to everything is big government. The independent senator from Vermont wants government-run, single-payer health care. Seeing efficiencies that nobody else can see, he wants to turn post offices into banks. Now, he wants to leverage the notoriously inept federal job-training system (see here, here, here, etc.) and a new set… -
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4 Keys to Understanding the Investigation of a Loan Helping Bernie Sanders’ Wife
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is keeping quiet as a federal grand jury investigates a bank loan to a now-defunct private college once run by his wife. “If Jane Sanders had been Jane Doe, she never would have gotten the loan,” @BradyToensing says. Sanders’ Senate office has been declining media interviews in Vermont. A spokesman, Josh… -
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30 Years Later, Bernie Sanders’ ‘Medicare for All’ Plan Hasn’t Improved With Age
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was against socializing the U.S. health care system before he was for it. Who knew? In the late 1980s, Sanders, who at the time was the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, acknowledged that a Canadian-style government-run health care system “would bankrupt the nation.” But that was then, and this is now. With… -
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Bernie Sanders Introduces Single-Payer Health Care Bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is pushing a single-payer health care bill that would give Americans health insurance through Medicare. “Today, we begin the long and difficult struggle to end the international embarrassment of the United States being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all its people,” Sanders said in… -
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Sanders Casts Lone Vote Against FDA Bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., cast the only vote against a Food and Drug Administration user fee reauthorization bill that passed the Senate Thursday in an overwhelming majority of 94 to 1. Sanders voted against the bill, which facilitates the collection of fees from drug and medical device companies, because it “does nothing to lower drug… -
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Bernie Sanders Joins UAW in Mississippi Push for Nissan Union Vote
High-profile Democratic Party leaders and Hollywood celebrities are partnering with the United Auto Workers to help Big Labor gain footing in Southern states. The UAW won a deal with Japanese-based Nissan Motor Co. allowing close to 4,000 full-time employees at its Canton, Mississippi, plant to vote on whether to organize as a labor union. Sen. Bernie… -
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Trump Nominee Not Hindered by Bernie Sanders’ Religious Litmus Test
No thanks to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., President Donald Trump’s pick for the Office of Management and Budget is one step closer to his new job. After a faith-based grilling that left Sanders red-faced and Americans in shock, Russell Vought’s nomination squeaked out of the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee by the narrowest… -
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Results of Virginia’s Primary Hint at Future for Trump, Sanders Movements
In one of the first major primary races after the 2016 presidential election, a Republican candidate for governor who campaigned on a pro-Trump platform nearly pulled off an upset, while a Democrat candidate who cast himself in Bernie Sanders’ progressive mold lost. Candidates perceived by some as establishment won in both the Democratic and Republican primaries… -
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50,000 Ask Bernie Sanders to Apologize for Attack on Trump Nominee’s Faith
Over 50,000 individuals so far have signed an online petition asking Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to apologize for his public attack on the Christian beliefs of President Donald Trump’s nominee for a post in the Office of Management and Budget. Sanders “responded in anger after Russell Vought, President Trump’s nominee to be deputy director of… -
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Sanders’ Religious Test Goes Against Founders’ Vision
What does a man’s theology have to do with the U.S. economy? A lot, if you’re Russell Vought. The respected economist, President Donald Trump’s pick for deputy director at the Office of Management and Budget, thought he’d have to answer some tough questions at his Senate hearing last week. But like most of us, he… -
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Bernie Sanders Shows the Left’s Refusal to Coexist With Traditional Believers
Religious tests for holding public office are banned in the Constitution and go against the very core of the American tradition. But you wouldn’t have learned that on Wednesday listening to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as he questioned Russ Vought, the nominee for deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget. His questioning of… -
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Meet the ‘Bernie Sanders’ of Britain Who Is Now Vying for Prime Minister
Great Britain is set to hold a “snap” election on Thursday. Currently, the conservative Tories hold power in Parliament, but are being challenged by the Labour Party in what could be a hotly contested race for power. The Conservative Party is expected to win, but if Labour prevails, British leadership would undergo a dramatic shift….