Never mind that the top 1% of earners whom he demonizes shoulder nearly 40% of the federal income tax burden and the top 10% cover 70% of the bill. Never mind that even expropriating all the taxable income of the 1% would not cover his proposed $19 trillion spending increase for one year.

The "for one year" is not needed and misleading. The $19 trillion spending increase BS proposes is over 10 years, or $1.9 trillion per year (assuming level to simplify).  But to elaborate Ed's claim, I use the 2013 income and tax data (the latest available) in Table 1 here.  The top 1% have AGI (adjusted gross income) of $1.72 trillion and an average tax rate of 27.08%. $1.72 * (1 - 0.2708) = $1.25 trillion, which is less than $1.9 trillion. On the other hand, expropriating all the taxable income of the top 5% would (naively) cover it. $3.11 * (1 - 0.232) = $2.4 trillion.  Incidentally, BS wants to raise taxes in more ways than individual income taxes. Link.

In the news Trump calls Sanders a communist (link).  While largely true, BS's supporters and many others will pooh-pooh it. Calling BS a Marxist socialist and explaining why might be more effective.  An example of pooh-poohing is here. The author bloviates about Sanders being a member of this and not a member of that, nowhere defining what socialism or communism means regarding relations between the individual and the state.

(Edited by Merlin Jetton on 2/13, 6:32am)

Have you read the book, Luke?  If yes, how was it?

I hadn't heard of the author. He has a blog, Captain Capitalism. Here are posts about Bernie Sanders.

I spend a lot of time in the wilds perfecting my wildlife photography, it's a nice break from worldly crapstorms as well as productive and enjoyable time learning another skill set.  Up here in Canada things are looking left more and more.  It's sickening.