Bernie Sanders Buys A $600,000 Lake House, Still Wants Wealthy To Make College Free
Attention Bernie Nerds: Your wrinkled savior, the man who worked tirelessly to close the wealth divide, bring down the 1%, and instill economic equality to all Americans has just purchased his third home. It’s a lakefront vacation house for a cool $600,000.
From Seven Days Vermont:
The Burlington resident last week plopped down nearly $600,000 on a lakefront camp in North Hero.
Sanders’ new crib has four bedrooms and 500 feet of Lake Champlain beachfront on the east side of the island — facing Vermont, not New York. The Bern will keep his home in Burlington and use the new camp seasonally.
Let’s go through the numbers. How many $27 donations do you think it takes to add up to lake house? By my calculations, you’re looking at around 22,000. The US Census records show 6.8 million college students enrolled at public universities. Now the Old Man From Vermont gets to put up his feet and listen to NPR in a swanky vacation pad after inevitably losing to the much more prominent and better supported Clinton campaign. As Frank Reynolds says, there’s always some chump in it for the payday.
How much of that money went to pay back student loans, huh? With $600,000, Sanders could have forgiven an average of seven to eight undergraduates, or one University of Southern California student.
Where’s the fair deal, Bernie?.
[via Seven Days Vermont]
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Saying anything to profit off of dumbasses. TFM
10 years ago at 9:40 amWhat a dork.
10 years ago at 9:41 amMoney probably came from speaking engagements and his salary as senator. Definitely not campaign contributions. Give me laps but at least understand the basic premises of campaign finance
10 years ago at 9:47 amOr the money Hillary bought him out with
10 years ago at 9:49 amWe get it, you’re PoliSci
10 years ago at 10:09 amOr perhaps he took the campaign donations and paid his senior adviser a ridiculous amount to run a losing campaign. He senior adviser? His wife. I understand the basic premise of loopholes.
10 years ago at 10:37 amI mean if he’s makimg this much money, doesn’t that mean that he also wants himself to pay fro universal free college?
10 years ago at 11:25 amActually depending on how he received the donations and what they were categorized as in his campaign, he could have possibly used campaign money to buy that house.
10 years ago at 1:18 pmNo, he couldn’t have
10 years ago at 5:58 pmDoesn’t he know how many starving children you can feed with $600,000
10 years ago at 9:50 amBernie’s old as dirt, he’s probably been saving up for that house since the 60’s. He’s gonna die soon, let the dude live out his final days cursing the upper class in a little bit of luxury
10 years ago at 9:59 amShit, the guy didn’t get a paycheck until he was 42. This is congressional salary and speaking engagements all the way.
10 years ago at 10:33 amYou know the “didn’t have a paycheck till he was 42” is a dumb Internet myth. I hate the guy’s economic policies too, but don’t make us sound like your dumb grandpa who gets his news from Facebook
10 years ago at 12:32 pmI know, I know. It’s just such a fitting smear.
10 years ago at 7:18 pmYea he even sold another house to help finance buying this one. God forbid the dude have a savings account at 74. I don’t like his policies, but why is this a story?
10 years ago at 10:40 amill start by saying im not a bernie supporter. 1) just because hes the voice of poor hippies doesnt mean he has to live like one 2) 600,000 doesnt sound excessive/lavish for waterfront property. just sounds like a good deal and smart investment.
10 years ago at 10:07 amAs far as lake houses go 600k is very modest
10 years ago at 10:41 amHe’s not a hypocrite, he’s a “democratic” hypocrite, so its okay.
10 years ago at 10:09 am$600,000 for waterfront? House must be a shithole.
10 years ago at 10:55 am600,000 isn’t a lot for a beachhouse
10 years ago at 11:34 amMaybe they’ll protest for free lake houses
10 years ago at 1:46 pm