Discussion: Bernie Defends His Wealth: ‘If You Write A Bestselling Book, You Can Be A Millionaire Too’

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) finally plans to release ten years of tax returns before Monday

Which Monday?

 

acknowledging that they will show he is a millionaire.

If that’s all they show, then let Trump attack him.

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Just retire already, “Bernie”. You are, again, screwing up this race. You aren’t even a Democrat. Go away.

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If he became a millionaire by writing a best-selling book,it must’ve been the publisher’s advance that put him over-the-top. I know several successful published authors. They all say that the profit margin per book sold is not that much. The first sale of a new release creates the used book market too.

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And, the key returns are not from anywhere in the past 5 years. See 2006-07 and where his wife’s money came from (per @ericgarland)

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That go for Bill and Hillary Clnton?

Or is that what you call ill-gotten gains?

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Well, I would really enjoy seeing a Sanders-Trump debate. The shades of red and orange faces would make a palette Georgia O’keefe could use to great effect.

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Senator Sanders has “planned” a whole lot of things.

As the pony gif says, I’m just here for the comments.

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Who is the publisher?

Of Bernie’s book? I don’t know.

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I’m a Bernie supporter because I’m a democratic socialist, but this statement is clueless, and potentially toxic to his campaign, because it implies that he’s entitled to the money. Within the world we live in, he is entitled to the money in some narrow sense, but one of the points of democratic socialism is that what people get paid and what they are entitled to isn’t much based on what they “deserve.” Bernie made a lot on his book because of his standing as a political figure and the market system in which books are sold as profit-making commodities, not because it was so hard to write or so original. He should have said something like, “Isn’t it crazy that a political celebrity like me can make money than what most people can only dream of – that why I’m going to use the money to keep up the fight for a fairer system.”

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Is that what he was hiding? I doubt it will matter to his Stans, just like nothing about Trump matters to his Stans.

This won’t help Bernie with the rest of the country but, his base won’t give a crap that he’s a multi-millionaire railing against other multi-millionaires while claiming to be an Average Joe.

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Will it matter to hardly anybody? I don’t think very many people would dispute that a smart, well-connected person with the right background can reach seven figures of personal wealth in this country by working hard for five decades. And holding office in the United States Senate certainly suggests that you are smart, well-connected, with the right background, and a hard worker (although god knows there are exceptions).

I don’t abide gross hypocrisy, but I have always assumed that Senator Sanders was a millionaire or close to it. I frankly never gave it much thought. I think it has been a severe political error if the “only” thing Sanders is hiding is that he’s rather wealthy.

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No wonder this 2016-2020 saboteur has stopped trashing millionaires (he’s one of them now) and only goes after billionaires. Hypocrite! :unamused:

AnyoneButBernie2020

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It’s not.

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finally plans to release ten years of tax returns before Monday,
  acknowledging that they will show he is a millionaire.

It takes a while to form a decent rationalization - justification entity
and get it in place …

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I think it will matter to some because of the obvious hypocrisy, YMMV

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If it takes this much effort for Sanders’ handlers to finally release 10 years of tax returns, just imagine how long it takes for Trumps’ apparatus to not do so – especially with all the best people competing for biggest toady award.

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“J.R.Rowling”

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This fucking asshole railed about Hillary giving speeches about the benefits of micro-loans to poor people because she gave those speeches to banks. His supporters threw dollar bills at her and called her a whore. Meanwhile, signing multi-million dollar book deals with Jeff Bezos is OK as long as you’re doing it For The People™?

Fuck this guy. Vote for any Democrat you want but for the love of Buddha don’t vote for this fraud.

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