On the first article: "with all due respect to most economists"? Really? He's literally arguing that corporations will take the payroll tax increases out of their bottom line profits rather than lowering people's wages. Nobody outside of Bernie's echo chamber would take that argument seriously.

The second post isn't even about this, but it is interesting that the main takeaway point is: the 'pundits' with track records for data-based analysis are uniformly aligned against Sanders.