Bernie Sanders

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74% would accept raising taxes on Americans with incomes over $250k p/yr in order to strike a deal.

Enacting a chained-CPI would have the largest impact on young, permanently disabled veterans.

The largest cuts resulting from the chained CPI would be to young, permanently disabled veterans.

The chained-CPI would reduce the benefits of and pensions by $24 billion over the next decade.

It is time to end corporate tax loopholes and use this money to reduce the deficit and create jobs, not lower corporate tax rates.

In 2011, corporations paid just 12% of their profits in taxes, the lowest since 1972.

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