The Wall Street Journal had an article Wednesday about the op ed Trump had in USA Today attacking the Sanders plan. (I didn't read the op ed). An excerpt from the WSJ is below the link.
For political professionals, one of the most bizarre aspects of this bizarre era is the speed at which Vermont socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders has gone from near irrelevance as the Senate’s resident kook to the most influential policy maker in one of America’s two major political parties. Now comes the moment when Democrats who have largely adopted Sanders positions may have to explain them to voters.
President Donald Trump is now doing all he can to encourage this conversation. And the leftist squawking in response suggests that Mr. Trump has identified a critical vulnerability of his political opponents.
The President writes in a USA Today op-ed:
Throughout the year, we have seen Dem ocrats across the country uniting around a new legislative proposal that would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid for their entire lives.
Dishonestly called “Medicare for All,” the Democratic proposal would establish a government-run, single-payer health care system that eliminates all private and employer-based health care plans and would cost an astonishing $32.6 trillion during its first 10 years.
The Sanders program really would cost taxpayers that much, according to former Social Security and Medicare trustee Charles Blahous’ August op-ed in the Journal. Mr. Sanders didn’t dispute the figure and a writer at Vox, a Sanders-friendly website for young adults, calls it “kind of a bargain.”
But on Twitter, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer implies the Trump op-ed is “false and misleading” and appeals to the authority of an Associated Press “Fact Check” carrying the headline: “Trump distorts Democrats’ health care ideas.”
"Kind of like a bargain".
Wow.
Posted by: maria | Friday, October 12, 2018 at 06:12 AM