evidence: Sanders wants to expand Medicare to cover everyone, and says this would cost an additional $17.5tn over the next decade. [...] Sanders has also stated employees earning over $29,000 a year (approx £22,000) will pay a 4% higher tax rate. [...] Sanders says the plan would be paid for largely by the part-nationalisation of the US energy industry, and from tax increases on the fossil fuel industry and other large corporations.