Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders erupted during a heated argument with a Fox Business reporter Thursday, telling her, “I can yell as loud as you!”
The heated exchange occurred after the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing on his proposal to reduce the regular workweek to 32 hours without a pay cut.
Sanders said that it was time for America to follow the lead of European countries, which had reduced their workweek.
This is what’s wrong with leftists. They hate America, and so they want the US to follow a European way of life that is less profitable under a more socialist government system. It only makes sense for an authoritarian group of leaders who want more control over their subjects’ lives by making them more dependent on the government.
Hillary Vaughn, a Fox Business reporter, stopped Sanders as he walked down the Senate hallway.
“It seems like Democrats want businesses to be taxed more, pay their workers…” Vaughn began.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL“Really? Is that what you think?” Sanders interrupted, pushing his hand into her face. What an obnoxious guy!
“They pay their workers…” Vaughn tried again.
“Excuse me. Excuse me!” Sanders said, becoming more hostile.
“I didn’t get to ask a question,” Vaughn explained.
Sanders, however, ignored Vaughn’s attempt to get one in.
“Okay, thank you,” he said as he started to walk away, acting like she was the one being obnoxious.
As Sanders was about to push the elevator button, she tied again, saying, “Senator…” but she didn’t get another word in.
“You wanna. Hold it. Okay?”
Sanders then ignores Vaughn and talks straight into the camera.
“We held a hearing on a 32-hour work week because what we have seen is that over the last 50 years, despite a huge increase in worker productivity, almost all of the wealth has gone to the top 1% while 60% of the people living paycheck to paycheck,” Sander stated.
“Many of our people are exhausted. We work the longest hours of any people in the industrialized world. I think it is time for a shortened work week.”
His “people” are exhausted and work long hours because they work jobs that should be for a second job when you already have a full-time job to supplement your income. A lot of people work two to three minimum wage jobs to support themselves. If Sanders spent more time trying to figure out why a certain sector of our population can’t get a full-time job, I think that would be beneficial. But socialists like Sanders try to tackle the problem from another angle: attack the employer instead.
“Let me ask you a question about that. Seems like Democrats want businesses to be taxed more, pay their workers more, lower prices, and now pay people not to work,” Vaughn stated.
“Really? That’s not my assumption. I don’t think so. You know what Democrats—you know what I would like to see?” Sanders replied.
“I can yell as loud as you,” he exclaimed at one point, waving his hand in Vaughn’s face.
“How will businesses survive that? That is the question. How can businesses endure this? How can firms withstand all of those proposals?” she asked.
“When Mr. Bezos pays an effective tax rate lower than the average worker, I think we have a real problem in our tax system. I think that billionaires have got to start paying their fair share of taxes. Thank you,” Sanders said
Sanders has used that example for a long time because he relies on the fact that most Americans don’t know that he is lying through his teeth.
According to the latest tax data from the Tax Foundation, the top 1% of wage earners pay 45% of the entire federal income tax burden, while the bottom 50%, the lowest half of all taxpayers, pay a meager 2.3% of the entire federal income tax grab.
These are Donald Trump’s tax policies. Whenever 1% of people are paying nearly half of everything, I would say they are indeed paying their “fair share,” but Bernie likes to pull a fast one of everyone’s eyes.
SOURCE: taxfoundation.org
When Sanders and the rest of his ilk tell you that billionaires like Jeff Bezos pay an effective tax rate lower than the average worker, they are lying to you. Jeff Bezos is in the top 1% and pays nearly half of the entire federal income tax burden.
This lie started years ago under the Clinton administration when they said a waitress pays a higher tax rate than billionaire Warren Buffet. What the Bernie Sanders of the world always leaves out is that they are not comparing income tax rates. In this case, Sanders is comparing the average worker’s income tax rate to Jeff Bezos’s business capital gains tax rate, which is lower. If Socialist, Inc. people like Sanders compared income tax rates for both, it would be out of the question that Bezos doesn’t pay his fair share, because he pays over a dozen times what the average worker pays. And that’s not even getting into the tax loopholes that people like Bernie Sanders write into the tax code.
Sanders said in a press release on his website that his suggestion “is not a radical idea.”
“Today, American workers are over 400% more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages than they were decades ago. That has got to change,” he remarked.
“The financial gains from the major advancements in artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology must benefit the working class, not just corporate CEOs and wealthy stockholders on Wall Street.”
“It is time to reduce the stress level in our country and allow Americans to enjoy a better quality of life. It is time for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay,” Sanders stated.
The average American worker’s stress levels were much lower under the Trump administration, where we had more jobs than people who could fill them. Their stress levels have skyrocketed after the COVID lockdowns imposed by Democrats across the country, which were then exacerbated by all the executive orders Joe Biden signed that attacked our energy sector and allowed over 10 million illegals into the country who are taking jobs away from American citizens because they will do them for less pay.
I would say to Bernie that it is the Democratic Party, the party he caucuses with, that is the major concern in this discussion.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders proposes 32-hour work week for the same pay | "Many of our people are exhausted." pic.twitter.com/46RCTCUblK
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