Bernie Sanders vs. Hillary Clinton: Sanders Campaign Dubs Clinton’s Family Tax

“Caregiving can be a win-win for the family and for our overall health system”, the Clinton campaign said in a white paper.

Michael Briggs, who serves as Sanders’ communications director, further suggested that the former secretary of state’s approach was too timid, The Washington Post reported.

As part of her plan Sunday, Clinton proposed changing Social Security rules so that people who leave the workforce to care for a family member can get credit for it when their retirement benefits are figured.

The tax breaks will help families stretch their budgets a little more, she explained.

Today, SEIU President Mary Kay Henry released the following statement in support of Hillary Clinton’s plan to address the care economy vital for America’s seniors and people with disabilities.

Clinton has previously announced a tax credit of $2,500 for an individual or $5,000 for a family to cover high healthcare costs and another credit that would cover some of the expense of attending college.

Her campaign, in turn, has recently attacked Sanders for his support of measures that would raise taxes on the middle class. Until recently, both camps had attempted to make a virtue of not talking about the other. Caregivers can claim up to $1,200 through this tax relief plan each year. It also said it wanted Clinton to repeal Obamacare’s “Cadillac tax” on expensive employer-provided health insurance. Clinton’s campaign estimates that the economic value of the unpaid work provided by family caregivers of the aging and disabled was $470 billion in 2013.

Clinton met with home care workers at an emotional event in August, where a number of the women participating in the Los Angeles round table cried about their jobs and their pay. In an identical town hall in New Hampshire in Jul., Clinton described what she referred to as a “care-giving crisis” & stated authorities programs need to do more to assist.

“I think most of the expense that they put in there, the expenditures have to do with the single-payer health care system”, Mr. Sanders told MSNBC after the report.

Among those in the stands were Laurie Reafsnider and her son Codie, who’ve seen the presidential candidate speak on more than one occasion. She confirmed the money could be generated by taxing the higher-income slab a little more.

The proposal is the latest iteration of a long-time Clinton proposal. Bernie Sanders, are in favor of small tax increases to pay for large programs. “He’s a teacher. He takes his mother to work with him”, she said at the Iowa Jefferson-Jackson dinner in October.