Three houses and millions of incomes: Bernie Sanders leads a non-socialist lifestyle

Vermont State Senator Bernie Sanders joined the 2020 presidential race of the year promising to transform America based on his left-wing vision of economic and environmental justice. But the high income, numerous homes and a love of air travel caused criticism of Sanders, based on the fact that his lifestyle does not correspond to rhetoric.

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In his speeches, the senator pays special attention to income inequality and the need to impose higher taxes for wealthy US residents, writes Fox News.

“Our campaign is about transforming our country and creating a government based on economic, social, racial and environmental justice,” he said.

We are not a leader. I want to transform our country. Join me: https://t.co/qF3DpJmRX3 pic.twitter.com/3wtNIEkH32

- Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 20, 2019

However, many were surprised by the high costs of Sanders and his condition. The politician owns three houses. In 2016, he bought a four-bedroom lakeside house for 575 000 dollars in Vermont. This is in addition to homes in Washington, DC, as well as in Burlington, Vermont.

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The presence of several houses calls into question the veracity of past statements by the senator who criticized billionaires for needing a lot of yachts and cars.

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In addition, in recent years, Sanders also earned more than 1 million dollars annually, although his capital is not very high compared to other Democrats.

In May 2018, VTDigger reported that the senator earned more than 1 a million dollars in 2017, of which 885 767 dollars were received as advances and fees for his book Our Revolution telling of his presidential campaign 2016. In 2016, the senator also earned over a million.

Despite this, according to Forbes, he has one of the lowest levels of net assets among potential presidential candidates. The net worth of Sanders is approximately 700 000 dollars. This is a very small amount compared with other Democrats, his left-wing colleague, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts, has a net worth of 7,8 million dollars.

But conservatives see Sanders' lifestyle as contradictory to his statements.

“He admits that the health care plan he wants to introduce in the US costs $32 trillion. He wants an 8 percent general payroll tax that would give him just $12 trillion—an 8 percent pay cut for everyone—to pay for just one-third of his health insurance plan. So you can imagine the endless number of tax increases they're going to put in place,” said Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist.

But other aspects of the senator’s lifestyle also attract close attention, especially against the backdrop of his calls to limit environmental pollution, as well as to redistribute the “wealth of millionaires and billionaires.”

In October, Sanders spent about 300 000 dollars on flights to meet with supporters in nine states. This was done by a candidate stating the need to drastically reduce the number of air travel in order to save the environment.

According to VTDigger, the Sanders team has acquired carbon offsetting worth about 5000 dollars to balance the emissions associated with flights.

The same day that his campaign paid for the airline, Sanders called climate change a “planetary crisis” on his Twitter account.

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Since Sanders announced his presidential nomination, he has faced a new wave of criticism from conservatives, and writer Charlie Kirk has stated: "For a dedicated socialist, he loves to live like a capitalist."

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Other members of his family are also likely to be carefully analyzed. The Wall Street Journal again drew attention to the controversy surrounding Bernie’s wife, Jane Sanders, and her actions as president of Burlington College.

The college was closed in 2016, citing the huge debt it had accumulated when Sanders was in power, in particular, when the college made a real estate deal for 10 million dollars. Federal investigators found out if Jane Sanders committed a bank fraud by inflating the amount of money promised to donors by the school, but investigators closed the investigation and did not make any accusations.

Vermont Republicans believe the investigation was closed because Jane is the senator's wife, and suggest that he intervened.

In response to an inquiry from Fox & Friends, Sanders' 2020 Senior Campaign Advisor Jeff Weaver said: “These false accusations began with a politically motivated complaint from Trump’s Vermont chief of staff in 2016. As Jane said from the beginning, she did nothing wrong and was glad that the investigation ended a few months ago.

But The Wall Street Journal reports that between 2009 and 2011, the college paid more 328 000 dollars in the year to enroll students in a woodworking school run by Mrs. Sanders' daughter.

“This demonstrates financial incompetence and cronyism. Looks like socialism,” said an article in The Wall Street Journal.

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