“As the proposals get more focus and as the election debates wear on, a big question for 2020 is how much Democratic loyalists — who would be paying a lot of that bill — will remain behind it.” That was in news too but nobody wants to address it. Better said would be how many stupid Democrats exist? I stomached about 10 minutes of the debate before turning it off. None worth it and that media batch were sycophants.

……………….For those making millions of dollars and living in a high-tax location like New York City, the combined marginal tax rate — including federal income tax, Medicare and Social Security tax, and state and local income tax — would be about 63 percent.

Sweden currently has the highest top overall marginal tax rate among rich nations, at 60.1 percent, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

Moreover, the Warren and Sanders plans would apply Social Security taxes to investment income for the first time, not just to earnings. That would make it harder for high-income people to avoid taxes by reclassifying their labor income as business income. This has the potential to reduce the accumulation of savings, and over time reduce investment in the economy.

Higher Social Security benefits are popular in public opinion polls. The tax increases proposed by Ms. Warren or Mr. Sanders would apply to a slim minority of earners: 4.6 percent, according to Moody’s Analytics.

Moody’s data also shows that the higher taxes would be paid disproportionately in Democratic-leaning states. The 12 states with the highest share of earners who would owe higher taxes all voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, led by New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

“People who live in affluent areas and are making good money, are they going to jump with glee over paying more taxes?” said Representative John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat who is author of the congressional Democrats’ plan to expand Social Security benefits. “I can’t argue in good faith that people are sending me love notes from wealthy suburban counties.”

Washington has passed a living wage law and the teachers union wants my money every paycheck? In the few years I’ve been working the union has done nothing but collect its money to increase my wages or benefits which has been given by the state. I’m a Democrat and my government protects me better than any union ever has in the lifetime of having unions in this state. Like @Deb let’s call the union what it is. It’s not needed here. I’m better served by my state. Not by a union that keeps growing broke and wanting to take more from me while the bosses live fancy on my money. I prefer the democracy of my state ballot, not the paid ballot counting in a back room of my union building.

you used a 2013 article???? that says nice things about DISH NETWork improvements. You didn’t read it all , did you? Better look because YOUR link says Dish is doing great now and was doing better then and now it ranks high. Sometimes headlines don’t represent @ Sam Torre. Sometimes your comments do represent .

Low IQ sycophant to DORR Socialism. BTW Socialism didn’t pay you enough to live in Sedona, capitalism did.

The above is an example of why unions are needed and when owners of the business and upper level management only care about themselves and NOT the personal welfare of the workers.

In unity there is strength. Companies like the above only care to divide so the can spoon feed whatever they think thier employees deserve.

Here’s what union membership really does.