Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders keeps finding ways to make himself look foolish and hypocritical.
Which, admittedly, isn’t difficult, but he’s entering into “cringe-inspiring” territory.
On Monday, February 25, the usually docile and 99% friendly to collectivists Wolf Blitzer made the mistake of asking Bernie about his tax returns, and as The American Mirror’s Victor Skinner writes, this “man of the people” who decries concentrated wealth had a difficult time discussing his own.
When asked about releasing his taxes, he stammered:
Well, you know, the delay is not … our tax returns will bore you to death… It’s simply a ma… there’s nothing special about them. It just was a mechanical issue, we don’t have accountants at home, my wife does most of it and we will get that stuff out.
But Blitzer did something he doesn’t often do with leftists. He pressed, and pointed out some troubling delays in Bernie’s past:
Blitzer pointed out that folks have been calling on him to expose his finances since he ran for president in 2016 and questioned why Sanders is only now deciding to do so.
Indeed, many of us wonder why this supposed paladin of the “working man” – this socialist who embraces the redistribution of wealth from those who have produced their own via voluntary market exchange – would not want people to see just how close-to-the-bone he lives, just how much like the “little guy” he is.
One wonders why this man who supports invasive anti-constitutional breaches of the Fourth Amendment through the federal employees of the TSA might balk at exposing private information.
One wonders why this politician who has no problem with the government demanding your bank records, getting weekly reports from your employers as to how much you’re earning, and actually telling you and your employer how you will engage in private contract – one wonders why he’s not more eager to drop his privacy shields and let everyone see how he lives.
Perhaps it’s because he’ll be exposed as a wealthy double-speaker filled with his own conceit. As Skinner reports:
As America waits for Sanders to get his stuff together, the senator’s federal financial disclosures paint an interesting picture of a candidate who rails against the rich while raking in millions as a public servant… Sanders’ 2017 Senate financial disclosure, filed last May, shows he inked several lucrative book deals about his socialist policies that have totaled nearly seven figures annually in recent years.
And…
Most of Sanders’ money and assets are listed in his wife Jane’s name… What is for certain is Sanders’ financial forms shows he has between $150,000 and $350,000 in cash in the bank, and three different high-dollar homes. The residences include a $600,000 vacation home in Vermont’s swanky Champlain Islands, a half-million dollar row house three blocks from the Capitol, and a home in Burlington worth between $100,000 and $250,000.
Perhaps Bernie doesn’t want people to know his earnings, because if they did, indeed, his former supporters would “feel the ‘bern’”.