Sanders' chief Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has long claimed his plan would have to raise taxes on the middle class. We now know it would. We also know that, by Sanders' accounting, the plan would actually put more money into the pockets of all but the very richest Americans.

That's because the planned tax increases would be more than offset by a decline in how much most Americans pay for their health care — their premiums, their deductibles, their co-pays, all of it — per Sanders' math.

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There are still lots of questions about how the middle class would fare under his new plan. But it's clear they would definitely do better than the rich.

Employers would put up about half of what Sanders’ staff think the campaign would cost. They’d pay a new payroll tax of 6.2 percent, equal to the amount employers already pay to Social Security. That tax would raise $630 billion a year, the campaign projects.

Most Americans would have to pay a “premium” – although unlike a premium for a conventional insurance plan, this fee would increase with the household’s income. That premium amounts to a 2.2 percent increase in taxes on earnings that would raise about $210 billion a year. With the standard deduction, it would apply to households earning at least $28,800 a year, according to the campaign.

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The rich would pay through the nose. In addition to the premium, Sanders would increase the marginal rate on those earning at least $250,000 a year. Those earning between that amount and $500,000 would pay 37 percent on any income in that range. Income between $500,000 and $2 million would be taxed at a rate of 43 percent; income between $2 million and $10 million would be taxed at a rate of 48 percent.

Here’s the kicker: Income above $10 million would be taxed at a rate of 52 percent. With that big number, Sanders makes good on his promise last June to propose a marginal tax rate above 50 percent – although it would only apply to about 13,000 of the country’s richest households, according to the campaign.

Besides those marginal increases, which the campaign estimates would yield $110 billion a year, Sanders would also tax the rich by treating income from investments the same as earnings from wages and salaries. Currently, income from investments, including dividends and capital gains, is taxed less heavily. Taxing these sources of income at the same rate would raise $92 billion a year, according to Sanders’s campaign. He’d also expand the estate tax, raising $21 billion a year.

In exchange for all of that, Americans wouldn’t have to pay deductibles or co-pays any longer, or premiums to private insurers. Would they come out ahead?

Here are a few points to consider.