Brian Fallon, Clinton’s press secretary, honed in on the Vermont senator’s health care bill in 2013 and a Washington Post report on its tax impact.
“If you are truly concerned about raising incomes for middle-class families, the last thing you should do is cut their take-home pay right off the bat by raising their taxes,” Fallon said in a statement Tuesday. “Yet Bernie Sanders has called for a roughly 9 percent tax hike on middle-class families just to cover his health care plan, and simple math dictates he’ll need to tax workers even more to pay for the rest of his at least $18 to $20 trillion agenda.”
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Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said Sanders would help the middle class. He hit back at Clinton for her record and past statements.
“On Medicare for all, the middle class would be far better off because it would save taxpayers money. More people would get better care at less cost,” Briggs said. “Didn’t she used to be for that? We wouldn’t throw money away on costly premiums for profit-making private insurance companies. Pharmaceutical companies would no longer be able to rip off Americans with the most expensive prescription drugs in the world. Didn’t she used to be for that?”
“It’s not surprising that she supports a system that props up private insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies which have given so much money to her campaigns. In fact, she’s gotten more money from the pharmaceutical industry than any other candidate,” Briggs said.