When The Wall Street Journal discovered that the price tag of Senator Bernie Sanders" (I-VT) proposals would be in the neighborhood of a staggering $18 trillion, Washington Post blogger Paul Waldman went into action. Waldman, also a senior writer with the "liberal" American Prospect magazine, figured out a way to make socialism seem positively beneficial for all and practically without cost to anyone.
Waldman said that "...while Sanders does want to spend significant amounts of money, almost all of it is on things we"re already paying for; he just wants to change how we pay for them."