This essay contain several statements that just don’t hold any water.

For example she says she could “find no unbiased <assessments> of his tax policy that suggest his numbers add up”.

Well here’s one: 170 of the top economists in the country recently signed a letter endorsing Bernie Sanders economic proposals as “critical…for avoiding another crisis” and criticizing Hillary Clinton’s plans because her plans “leave intact the titanic financial conglomerates…” that caused the crisis in 2008.

These economists are from top institutions like Berkeley, Cornell, Harvard, the Federal Reserve, UCLA, Notre Dame, the University of Massachusetts and over 160 others including former US Congressmen.

The letter said (among other things): “In our view, Sanders’ plan for comprehensive financial reform is critical for avoiding another ‘too-big-to-fail’ financial crisis”

They concluded: “Secretary Hillary Clinton’s more modest proposals do not go far enough. Her plan does not adequately reduce the serious risks our financial system poses to the American economy and to individual Americans.”

You can read the one page letter (and 4 1/2 pages of signatures) here:

https://berniesanders.com/.../2016/01/Wall-St-Letter-1.pdf

She also claims that she couldn’t find any support for his idea of universal health care. I suggest she look at the website of the “Physicians For A National Health Program” at pnhp.org. There she will find the combined efforts of over 20,000 physicians in this country who agree with him and have been fighting for years for exactly the same idea..

She also claims that in his rhetoric he’s promising “free college”. However he has never said that. If she were being honest she would know that what he said is public colleges should be paid for just like public high schools. Any intelligent person would know that that doesn’t mean they’re “free” (they’re paid for by taxes) — but it does mean that they’re “tuition free” — just like public K-12 education is tuition free.

By the way, the woman who wrote that article (Robin Alperstein) is (according to her bio on the website of her law firm) a corporate attorney who specializes in “disputes involving hedge funds and structured products…She represents…clients on a range of issues, including…securities fraud, insider trading, short selling, and market manipulation. She…represents clients before the Securities and Exchange Commission, conducts internal investigations, and advises boards of directors, majority shareholders, management and individual directors on corporate governance issues.”

What a surprise that this Wall Street hedge fund/corporate attorney is not a fan of Bernie Sanders!

It seems that Hillary’s Wall Street friends are attempting to sow the seed of doubt about Sanders after pretending that they “used to like him, but now have seen the light”.