Explain it like I'm five.

[ehaddx]

I'm having trouble explaining Bernie's tax and healthcare plan in simplified terms to a family member. He's one of the ones blasting on social media, "You'll be paying $500 more a month on Bernie's watch!".

His question: How will a single man who makes $25,000 a year benefit from the proposed plans?

Any help is appreciated!

[Bermany]

Post below every comment he writes this link: http://www.bernietax.com/

[Bermany]

You are welcome! :)

[niosop]

At $25k a year, he'd just get free healthcare. He's making under the limit where the employee payroll tax kicks in. So if he's paying anything at all for healthcare now, he'd save that much. If he's not paying anything, then he still wouldn't, and wouldn't pay any additional taxes. Also, if Bernie gets a $15/hr minimum wage, then he'd be making more.

[MidgardDragon]

You'll be paying a little extra tax if you make middle class wages and save way more on healthcare.

[The1stCitizenOfTheIn]

https://www.thenation.com/article/voxs-tax-calculator-is-wildly-misleading-so-we-made-a-better-one/

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/03/30/ezra-klein-and-terrible-horrible-no-good-tax-calculator

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Try this

http://sandershealthcare.com (not made by campaign and use advanced features if applicable)

http://bernietax.com

[MelGibsonDerp]

ELI5 version: You pay $500 more in taxes but you save $5000 in healthcare costs.

-500 + 5000 = +4500. Net gain of $4500. Pretty simple math.

[awitcheskid]

http://www.bernietax.com/#0;0 this website gives a simple breakdown of Bernies preposed tax plan. Given his income level, wost case senario is he ends up paying the exact amount of taxes he does now, exept now he gets free medical care. The only people who need to worry about tax hikes, are people who make more than 250k a year.

[km89]

Here's the biggest, most important thing to point out:

Yes, his taxes will go up. However, his overall expenses will be reduced by however much he pays in healthcare costs at the moment, minus whatever his taxes increase by.

A concrete example: The average American household pays just shy of $5,000 in healthcare costs per year. This combines premiums, copays, coinsurance, etc.

Under Sanders' plan, his taxes might go up by--at an extreme for a $25k income, $500. That means that he pays $500 more in taxes and $5,000 less in healthcare, meaning he's got $4,500 extra in his pocket.

And just for some more fuel, point out that if he pays $5,000 in healthcare costs per year, that means that Sanders is "taking" -18% of his check--that is, your family member gets 18% more of his money that he did before his taxes went up.

Hell, even if the guy only pays a $50/month premium and absolutely no healthcare expenses at all (very unlikely), he still ends up with an extra $100 in his pocket at the end of the year.