Now that Bernie Sanders is a millionaire (despite being ranked the 19th “poorest” Senator in 2016), it’s time to see if he actually paid his fair share in taxes. You know, the crap he always whines about other people doing? Well, based on last year’s taxes, he only paid 26% in taxes and donated a small fraction to charity (typical hypocrite communist Democrat). Prior to becoming a presidential candidate in 2016, Comrade Sanders only paid 15% in taxes while the year before he only paid 13.4%. What a joke this communist is. Only one year did Comrade Sanders pay his “fair share”. He paid 35% in 2016, the first time he tried to run for president. Amazing coincidence.
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Sanders reported an adjusted gross income of nearly $561,293 and paid $145,840, a 26% effective rate, in 2018, the documents show. In 2016 and 2017, Sanders reported earning $1.06 million and $1.13 million in adjusted gross income and paid at a 35% and 30% effective rate, respectively.
The effective rates and income both represent substantial increases from 2014, which was the last year of tax returns publicly released by the candidate, when he earned $205,617 and paid a 13.4% effective rate. Sanders has said in interviews that his recent increase in income is due to the success of his books: 2016’s “Our Revolution,” which came out after Trump took the presidency and earned a spot on the Times’ bestseller list and 2018’s “Where We Go from Here: Two Years in the Resistance.”
Sanders reported earning over $850,000 as an author in 2017 and nearly $800,000 as an author in 2016.
His millionaire status, paired with decades of avid criticism of the millionaire and billionaire class, sets him up for scrutiny in a crowded field of Democrats running for the 2020 nomination.