Bernie Sanders in The Economist

On Tax Reform: Raise income tax & fix estate tax: hardly Marxist ideas

Sanders' views correspond to only a small portion of the socialist program advocated by Karl Marx in his Communist Manifesto and are a far cry from Marx's vision of a stateless communist society he posits would follow. Sanders would raise income taxes and lower the exemption on estate taxes from $5.4M to $3.5M, but he calls for something far less radical than the "abolition of all rights of inheritance". Source: The Economist "Socialist?" on 2020 Democratic primary Feb 1, 2019

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