Miami • Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders admitted that his plans for universal health care and free college would require a tax increase on America’s middle class as a fight for the direction of the Democratic Party played out in the opening moments of Thursday night’s presidential debate.
The concession came as Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, defended his calls for dramatic policy solutions to address growing inequality.
"Yes they will pay more in taxes but less in health care for what they get," Sanders said.
A day after the first wave of 10 Democrats debated, a second 10 faced each other and the nation for the first time in a prime-time confrontation that underscored differences along lines of race, gender, generation and ideology that are starting to shape the party's search for a nominee to take on President Donald Trump.