Bernie Sanders in the presidential race. Her primary intention is to alleviate a few expenses of people who care for their elders.
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In an interview with the Des Moines Register, Sanders claimed Clinton was short on details when it comes to taxes and family leave. “I go after the hedge funds, big insurance companies, shadow banking”.
All week, Clinton’s and Sanders’s camps traded barbs over middle-class taxes, an issue that Clinton’s campaign believes is a proxy for broader differences between the two candidates.
“You have to go to where the people are and in SC and many communities across the country, the people are in the church”, campaign spokeswoman Symone Sanders said.
Clinton’s primary rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen.
Iowa played its final home game this past Saturday.
Joe Kefauver, managing partner of Align Public Strategies, a public affairs firm, said the SEIU’s endorsement is important to Clinton’s campaign. Thompson told the former secretary of state and US senator he sometimes takes his elderly mother with him to his part-time job because they can not otherwise afford reliable care.
“If she thinks $1.38 a week is just too much to spend, let her explain that to the people of Iowa”, he said.
Assisting adults caring for their aging parents – often while also raising their own children or helping with grandchildren – has become a theme at Clinton’s campaign stops.
Recalling a recent conversation with her husband, who she called a “fanatic” about college football, she said he told her recently, “You know, I think Iowa is for real”.
One of the people who attended the town hall, Lavinia Engle, of Clinton, said she backed Clinton in 2008 and is doing so again this time because she has the most experience. “These are major concerns”. She also proposes to make sure fines for corporate wrongdoing hit executive bonuses, and to pursue criminal prosecutions when justified. Any political harm resulting from her Wall Street ties would be minimal, they maintain, because she never took action in exchange for donations. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who she said would raise taxes on the middle class.
Clinton also acknowledged high out-of-pocket costs and deductibles that she says are a problem with the Affordable Care Act.
Republican National Committee spokesman Fred Brown questioned the cost of the plan, saying: “Hillary Clinton’s solution to every pressing policy issue is to expand government and raise taxes, and this plan is no different as it will cost hardworking Americans billions”.
Bashing Wall Street is not an automatic win for Sanders, however. “Tens of millions more remain underinsured, facing bankruptcy due to unpayable medical bills or the choice of getting the care they need or paying for food or housing for their families”.
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Lee Smith added: ‘#Fake Hillary Clinton campaigned in Memphis, Tennessee yesterday and Huma Abedin didn’t forget to pack her fake southern accent’.
