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The DSA’s socialist plans carry a $212T price tag — and every one of us will pay

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It started in New York, but now democratic socialism is on a winning streak around the country.

Months after Zohran Mamdani became mayor, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America nearly swept the city’s June Democratic primaries.

In Florida, DSA member Angie Nixon won the Democratic Senate nomination over the establishment favorite.

And it’s not just the DSA’s own candidates: Socialist ideas are being laundered into the mainstream Democratic Party. 

In the upper Midwest, Abdul El-Sayed and Peggy Flanagan rode Sen. Bernie Sanders’ endorsement to win Democratic Senate primaries, campaigning on Medicare for All and expansive Green New Deal-like policies.

They insist these sweeping expansions of government shouldn’t be called socialism, but both are key pieces of the agenda socialists are selling to America.   

Lefty Michigan House candidate wished death on centrist Democrats in old social media post: ‘Hurry up and die’ 

Nithya Raman gets the socialists’ endorsement — and their baggage

Nithya Raman wins Democratic Socialists’ endorsement in bid to unseat LA Mayor Karen Bass

So I took the DSA platform — dubbed “A Day Without Capitalism,” it’s long on rhetoric and thin on details — and tallied up the costs. 

The bottom line: The DSA wants somewhere between $71 trillion and $212 trillion in new spending over the next decade.

At the high end, total government spending could consume as much as 92% of America’s........

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