Bernie Sanders wants to cut the "deficits" by spending trillions more
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is flipping the script on the GOP with a seven-step plan to address national "deficits" through increases in spending.
Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, said lawmakers must address deficits in jobs, income equality, infrastructure, trade, retirement security and education in their next budget blueprint.
"These deficits must be immediately address by the Budget Committee," he said in an eight-page report.
Sanders, a self-described socialist who caucuses with Democrats and is eyeing a White House run in 2016, has a high-profile role as the leading counterweight to Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee.
While Republicans are aiming to cut deficits and trim deficit spending, Sanders is pushing for new spending on social programs as the recipe for growing the economy.
To address what he calls the infrastructure deficit, for example, Sanders says the United States should spend an additional $1 trillion on repairing roads and bridges by 2020...Also read:
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