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Sanders’ Mitten-Maker: My Business Plunged Because ‘We Get Taxed To The Nth Degree’

Hank Berrien
Sanders’ Mitten-Maker: My Business Plunged Because ‘We Get Taxed To The Nth Degree’
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The Bernie Sanders supporter who made the mittens Sanders wore to President Biden’s inauguration, mittens made famous by a photo of the democratic socialist senator sitting with his arms and legs crossed during the proceedings, revealed in an interview that she doesn’t “have much of a mitten business anymore because it really wasn’t worth it. Independent crafters get really taken for a ride by the federal government. We get taxed to the nth degree.”

In March 2020, The Wall Street Journal reported of Sanders’ tax-heavy plans for the U.S. economy:

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