Inside the Numbers: What Taxes Would Look Like Under President Bernie Sanders

Vox’s  Dylan Matthews took a look at how the many policy initiatives of Bernie Sanders would affect marginal tax rates on wages:

“Bernie Sanders has a lot of plans. He’s got his single-payer health care plan, his tuition-free college plan, his infrastructure plan, his youth jobs plan, his expanded Social Security plan, his (borrowed from Kirsten Gillibrand) paid family leave plan, and many others.”

“While Sanders tends to portray these as separate ideas with separate financing, I thought it’d be worth adding them up and seeing what the tax code looks like with all of them. I looked specifically at his changes to personal income, payroll, and capital gains tax rates.”