WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement after Yale University researchers released a new study finding that Sanders’ Medicare for All legislation would save 114,000 lives and reduce overall healthcare spending in America by more than $1 […]
No. It’s accurate. They’re the kind of people who think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, and they’ll be damned if their hard-earned future money goes to the poor when they finally strike it rich.
One of the things imprinted from my young life was sitting in my friend’s house. I was maybe 8 or 9? Anyway, we were waiting for something else to come on like Happy Days or Dukes of Hazzard or something. These were the days of most households having one TV, maybe color if that family splurged and about 2-3 channels, LOL.
His parents were watching some local debate between two local candidates, possibly on PBS? The young guy struck me as a bit of a dumbass and had kind of slimey used car salesman vibes and the older guy seemed to be talking sense. Don’t really remember many details, and hell, I was a kid anyway.
Thing winds up and my friend’s dad is red-faced with anger over it and is growling about how the older guy will “raise my taxes!”.
Did I say we were sitting in my friend’s house? I left out the part that he lived in a trailer. My friend was poor, as was I - both our parents had bought large amounts of land in remote areas and put cheap houses on them. It is not likely at all that we were going to have our taxes raised in any way we’d really notice. I remember asking my parents about this reaction and I remember them laughing at the absurdity…
No. It’s accurate. They’re the kind of people who think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires, and they’ll be damned if their hard-earned future money goes to the poor when they finally strike it rich.
One of the things imprinted from my young life was sitting in my friend’s house. I was maybe 8 or 9? Anyway, we were waiting for something else to come on like Happy Days or Dukes of Hazzard or something. These were the days of most households having one TV, maybe color if that family splurged and about 2-3 channels, LOL.
His parents were watching some local debate between two local candidates, possibly on PBS? The young guy struck me as a bit of a dumbass and had kind of slimey used car salesman vibes and the older guy seemed to be talking sense. Don’t really remember many details, and hell, I was a kid anyway.
Thing winds up and my friend’s dad is red-faced with anger over it and is growling about how the older guy will “raise my taxes!”.
Did I say we were sitting in my friend’s house? I left out the part that he lived in a trailer. My friend was poor, as was I - both our parents had bought large amounts of land in remote areas and put cheap houses on them. It is not likely at all that we were going to have our taxes raised in any way we’d really notice. I remember asking my parents about this reaction and I remember them laughing at the absurdity…