2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has repeated multiple times that he will impose a tax increase if elected.
“You’re going to pay more in taxes,” Sanders said during a Fox News town hall in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on April 15 . At the same town hall he said, “Are people going to pay more in taxes? Yes.”
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“And yes, we have to raise individual tax substantially higher than they are today,” Sanders said during an interview with Jake Tapper on July 5, 2015.
On a separate CNN townhall hosted by Chris Cuomo in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 25, 2016, Sanders promised that “yes, we will raise taxes, yes we will.”
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Biden: “When I’m President, if God willing I am, we’re going to reverse those Trump tax cuts.”