{"id":10055,"date":"2015-07-07T02:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10055"},"modified":"2015-07-07T02:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:58:19","slug":"sen-sanders-shows-spunk-however","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10055","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Sanders shows spunk, however …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has put it on the line.<\/p>\n

The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination said flat-out he will raise individual tax rates if he’s elected president next year.<\/p>\n

The Vermont independent senator\u00a0said this on CNN over the weekend: \u201cYes, we have to raise individual tax rates substantially higher than they are today, because almost all of the new income is going to the top 1 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n

http:\/\/nypost.com\/2015\/07\/06\/bernie-sanders-will-raise-taxes-if-hes-elected-president\/<\/p>\n

As much as I admire Sen. Sanders’s spunk and his courage on some things, I feel compelled to remind him of a little political history, even though I know he’s aware of it.<\/p>\n

In 1984, former Vice President Walter Mondale was nominated to run for president. During his acceptance speech at the party convention in San Francisco, he said this: “Mr. Reagan will raises taxes and so will I. He won’t tell you. I just did.”<\/p>\n

“Mr. Reagan,” of course was the president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Vice President Mondale got a rousing cheer at the convention.<\/p>\n

President Reagan was re-elected in a 49-state landslide.<\/p>\n

Raising taxes doesn’t play well out here, Sen. Sanders.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders has put it on the line. The candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination said flat-out he will raise individual tax rates if he’s elected president next year. The Vermont independent senator\u00a0said this on CNN over the weekend: \u201cYes, we have to raise individual tax rates substantially higher than they are today, … Continue reading Sen. Sanders shows spunk, however …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,597,1335,3851,4017,5163],"class_list":["post-10055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","tag-1984-election","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-national-convention","tag-reagan-landslide","tag-ronald-reagan","tag-walter-mondale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}