Bernie, put down the bong! On Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show this evening, Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who caucuses with the Dems, claimed that rich Americans “have not contributed one nickel to deficit reduction.” Cenk of course failed to challenge Sander's certifiably silly assertion. View video after the jump. Watch Bernie defy reality, and consider that in the last analyzed year, the top 1% paid . . . 38% of all federal income taxes. CENK UYGUR: How are you going to rally progressives? I'm not putting it all on you.
Bernie, put down the bong! On Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show this evening, Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who caucuses with the Dems, claimed that rich Americans “have not contributed one nickel to deficit reduction.” Cenk of course failed to challenge Sander's certifiably silly assertion. View video after the jump. Watch Bernie defy reality, and consider that in the last analyzed year, the top 1% paid . . . 38% of all federal income taxes. CENK UYGUR: How are you going to rally progressives? I'm not putting it all on you.