Weird Bernie’s “Exhausted Tax Tale”

As other Democrats were busy fighting over what to fight over, Bernie Sanders was weirdly on his “Fighting Oligarchy Tour,” mostly hitting tax cutting states to rail against extending the Trump tax cuts.

WSJ’s editorial board called out the Senator’s “Exhausted Tax Tale” that insists “the 1%” are in line to get $1 trillion in tax breaks, “even though the latest GOP proposal extending President Trump’s 2017 tax reform “would prevent a $4.5 TRILLION tax increase that would harm every income bracket.” As most know, “Mr. Sanders launched his latest tour with events in Omaha, Neb. And Iowa City. Addressing crowds as large as 3,400, Bernie hit every note in the class-warfare chorus he’s been performing throughout his career. Attendees cheered his attacks on billionaires, whom he claimed, ‘literally buy elections.’ Has he heard of George Soros & Reid Hoffman?”

But, perhaps most weird of today’s Weird Bernie, the editors suggest, is that his message is likely to fall on deaf ears beyond his left-wing crowds that comprise a tiny percentage of voters in those two rural states. In fact, Iowa and Nebraska “have cut taxes aggressively since 2018, adding to Mr. Trump’s federal reform, and most voters [in those states] seem to like the results.” Bernie’s subsequent targets are fellow radicals in Wisconsin and Michigan. But, as the WSJ warns, “his reach will be limited no matter where he goes, since so many states have cut taxes successfully in recent years. He can count on a small, zealous audience, but he doesn’t have the country’s ear.”

Davd Soul