Addressing hundreds at Mountain View College, Clinton did not utter Sanders’ name but left little doubt about whom she was referring to when she brought up an opponent who she said wants to dismantle President Barack Obama’s signature health-care reform law and give more power to the states.
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Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon questioned the Vermont senator’s focus on growing middle-class incomes, saying the cost of his health care and other policies would require tax increases.
Taxes have become the latest flashpoint in the race for the Democratic nomination, with Clinton charging that Sanders supports raising taxes to pay for his plans and the Vermont senator responding that the former secretary of state is not being realistic with her proposals.
About 1,500 people packed into the gym at Mountain View College in Oak Cliff to hear presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speak.
“I don’t know about you, but I’d be a little anxious about turning it over to Greg Abbott”, Clinton said, drawing raucous cheers from the crowd.
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton mixed a few pointed jabs at Texas Gov. Greg Abbott into an otherwise routine stump speech during her first campaign visit to Dallas on Tuesday.
Sanders’ 2013 proposal included a 2.2 percent across the board income tax and a 6.7 percent payroll tax for employers, The Washington Post recently reported. Private insurance companies would be sidelined to selling supplemental coverage and his plan specifies that Medicare beneficiaries would be covered during the transition.
“When your governor turned away federal dollars that could have expanded Medicaid, he put ideology ahead of the well-being of the people and the families in this state”, Clinton said, noting Texas’s nation-leading rate of uninsured residents.
Sanders’ campaign said in response that his single-payer health system would save taxpayers money in the long run because it would eliminate wasteful health spending. Bernie Sanders, whose supporters had pushed against an endorsement. The executive body represents the nearly 2 million workers represented by the union. He says Clinton supports a system that “props up private insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies” which have given money to her campaign.
Union officials said Clinton received a strong majority in the vote of its leadership and a recent poll of its membership found about 70 percent back Clinton. Sanders has won endorsements from National Nurses United and the American Postal Workers Union.
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“Hillary Clinton has proven she will fight, deliver and win for working families”, said SEIU global President Mary Kay Henry in a statement.
