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Rebutting Bernie Sanders’s Argument in Favor of the $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package

Rebutting Bernie Sanders’s Argument in Favor of the $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Package
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks to reporters after a lunch with President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on July 14, 2021. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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One underestimates Sen. Bernie Sanders at one’s own risk. Any politician able to win over presumably bright college students by telling them that he wants to get the money out of politics while, at the same time, offering to give them a free college education is unusually clever, perhaps mesmerizing.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
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