These are the main points:
-Repeal all of the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax breaks for the top two percent.
-Create an emergency deficit-reduction surtax on millionaires.
-End tax breaks and subsidies for big oil, gas and coal companies.
-Establish a Wall Street speculation fee of 0.03 percent on the sale of credit default swaps, derivatives, stocks, options, and futures.
-Eliminate tax breaks for companies shipping American jobs overseas.
-Prohibit abusive and illegal offshore tax shelters.
-Establish a currency manipulation fee on China and other countries.
-Tax capital gains and dividends the same as work.
-Establish a Progressive Estate Tax.
-Reduce unnecessary and wasteful spending at the Pentagon, which now consumes over half of our discretionary budget.
-Require Medicare to negotiate for lower prescription drug prices with the pharmaceutical industry.
-Eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within every federal government agency.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/05/obamacare-fowler-lobbyist-industry1
Sanders couldn't be satisfied with Obamacare, could he?
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