More Liberal Economists Come Out Against Bernie Sanders’ Economic Plan – IOTW Report

More Liberal Economists Come Out Against Bernie Sanders’ Economic Plan

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FarrellFile:

Four left-learning economists came out against 2016 Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders’s economic plan in an open letterWednesday, saying the Vermont politician’s numbers don’t add up.

The former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers – Alan Krueger, Christina Romer, Laura D’Andrea Tyson and Austan Goolsbee slammed University of Massachusetts at Amherst economist Gerald Friedman’s claim Sanders’s proposal would increase the growth rate of real gross domestic product from 2.1 percent to 5.3 percent annually.

“We are concerned to see the Sanders campaign citing extreme claims by Gerald Friedman about the effect of Senator Sanders’s economic plan—claims that cannot be supported by the economic evidence,”  more

h/t Flaming Hetero

12 Comments on More Liberal Economists Come Out Against Bernie Sanders’ Economic Plan

  1. This is how you add Bernie up: First pile up two feet of dog shit. Then add two more feet of horse manure. Then a foot of hog slop and round it up to the inch with bull intestines. Add two sheep eyes and some straw for hair and viola you made yourself a Bernie!

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