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[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by erin_elise_

Lol thanks!


I guess I'm uninformed because I understand the comparison between Hugo Chavez and Bernie sanders. Lol

O I am also uniformed because I heard stats about 60% of sanders supporters not suporting tax increases....

I am just SOOOO uniformed Lololol

So, what is the basis for the comparison between Chavez and Sanders?

And what is the source of your hearsay about 60% of Sanders' supporters and tax support? More importantly, what were they referring to? Do you have any specifics for us? Or just AM talk radio sloganeering?

If you are informed, please share so we can lolololol with you. Thanks in advance.

[MordinSolus]

The 60% number is thrown around by the anti-Bernie crowd to make Bernie supporters out to be idiots, but the truth is that 60% said they didn't want taxes raised on the middle, working and lower classes. And it's not out of selfishness, it's out of common sense. More than 90% of new income goes to the top 0.5% so increasing taxes on everyone else makes no sense. And Bernie doesn't just want to increase taxes to pay for his initiatives. He wants to roll back America's expensive, intrusive presence around the world, cut the wasteful spending from the military/Pentagon, end corporate welfare, end oil subsidies, etc. Any one of those things more than pays for the free college program. Doing them all, in concert with tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and closing tax loopholes for corporations pays for universal healthcare, free college tuition, a stable Social Security program, publicly funded elections, enormous investments in infrastructure and renewable energies, and overhauling our regulatory bodies to finally do something substantive about climate change.

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by MordinSolus

The 60% number is thrown around by the anti-Bernie crowd to make Bernie supporters out to be idiots, but the truth is that 60% said they didn't want taxes raised on the middle, working and lower classes. And it's not out of selfishness, it's out of common sense. More than 90% of new income goes to the top 0.5% so increasing taxes on everyone else makes no sense. And Bernie doesn't just want to increase taxes to pay for his initiatives. He wants to roll back America's expensive, intrusive presence around the world, cut the wasteful spending from the military/Pentagon, end corporate welfare, end oil subsidies, etc. Any one of those things more than pays for the free college program. Doing them all, in concert with tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and closing tax loopholes for corporations pays for universal healthcare, free college tuition, a stable Social Security program, publicly funded elections, enormous investments in infrastructure and renewable energies, and overhauling our regulatory bodies to finally do something substantive about climate change.

Well, yes. I know all that. But now you've ruined my fun with erin elise. I wanted her to either admit she's clueless about the issue she brought up, or look it up, read the actual basis (as you've explained) and then figure out how to backstroke her way out of her initial misrepresentation.

Now we'll wait for her comparison to Chavez. Should be good entertainment.

[erin_elise_]

Originally Posted by Tulemutt

So, what is the basis for the comparison between Chavez and Sanders?

And what is the source of your hearsay about 60% of Sanders' supporters and tax support? More importantly, what were they referring to? Do you have any specifics for us? Or just AM talk radio sloganeering?

If you are informed, please share so we can lolololol with you. Thanks in advance.

How can you be perplexed over a comparison between Chavez and Sanders....both endorsed major socialist policies. your seemingly confusion over such a comparison is actually troubling to me.

o and here is the stat i was referring to earlier.

Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution - Vox

"About two in three Sanders supporters don't want to pay extra, or no more than $1,000, for free public college tuition

Sanders supporters are far and away the most likely to want free public college tuition. Still, 14 percent said they don't want to pay additional taxes for it — and another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year"

good luck with that "revolution" if they don't even want to pay for it lololol

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by erin_elise_

How can you be perplexed over a comparison between Chavez and Sanders....both endorsed major socialist policies. your seemingly confusion over such a comparison is actually troubling to me.

o and here is the stat i was referring to earlier.

Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution - Vox

"About two in three Sanders supporters don't want to pay extra, or no more than $1,000, for free public college tuition

Sanders supporters are far and away the most likely to want free public college tuition. Still, 14 percent said they don't want to pay additional taxes for it — and another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year"

good luck with that "revolution" if they don't even want to pay for it lololol

One problem when you make something free is that people often don't really appreciate it .
If you look at community colleges lots of people enroll in courses because they can get in free or for very little and then they drop out . Of course even if they do pay something it's a fraction of the true cost of the education since its subsidized by tax payers .

More people having a college degree that is easy or cheap to get also makes the value of the degree go down .

[Tulemutt]

Originally Posted by erin_elise_

How can you be perplexed over a comparison between Chavez and Sanders....both endorsed major socialist policies. your seemingly confusion over such a comparison is actually troubling to me.

o and here is the stat i was referring to earlier.

Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution - Vox

"About two in three Sanders supporters don't want to pay extra, or no more than $1,000, for free public college tuition

Sanders supporters are far and away the most likely to want free public college tuition. Still, 14 percent said they don't want to pay additional taxes for it — and another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year"

good luck with that "revolution" if they don't even want to pay for it lololol

Nuh-uh, erin. Not so fast. What "major socialist policies" did Chavez and Sanders both endorse? You're dancing around the issue you raised, but with no music.

And now that you are on the tax issue, let's see what you know about it. Why would Sanders' supporters want to, or expect to, pay a tax increase for health care, tuition, or other programs when what he is proposing is to specifically fund those programs without tax increases on the middle class? What is it that you think this protest against raising middle class taxes shows?

[MordinSolus]

Originally Posted by erin_elise_

How can you be perplexed over a comparison between Chavez and Sanders....both endorsed major socialist policies. your seemingly confusion over such a comparison is actually troubling to me.

What policies did they both endorse? Or are you just saying "Durrr their both socialists so their da same"?

o and here is the stat i was referring to earlier.
[url=http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/4/14/11421744/bernie-sanders-tax-revolution]Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren't willing to pay for his revolution - Vox[/url
"About two in three Sanders supporters don't want to pay extra, or no more than $1,000, for free public college tuition
Sanders supporters are far and away the most likely to want free public college tuition. Still, 14 percent said they don't want to pay additional taxes for it — and another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year"
good luck with that "revolution" if they don't even want to pay for it lololol

You just ruined your own argument. Only 14% of Sanders supporters aren't willing to support tax increases on the lower economic brackets to pay for Sanders' policy initiatives. That means 86% are willing to see their taxes increased.

[MordinSolus]

Originally Posted by erin_elise_

Did either of you refer to the source I provided or did you just glaze over that. Lol my guess is y'all did.

You very clearly just glossed over it, otherwise you would have noticed that it inadvertently undercuts it's own point and yours. It's hack "journalism" that proves what it's trying to obscure.

[erin_elise_]

Originally Posted by MordinSolus

What policies did they both endorse? Or are you just saying "Durrr their both socialists so their da same"?



You just ruined your own argument. Only 14% of Sanders supporters aren't willing to support tax increases on the lower economic brackets to pay for Sanders' policy initiatives. That means 86% are willing to see their taxes increased.

As far as Chavez and Bernie is concerned, how about massive spending on social programs as a similarity??? or did u need other examples? You are making this discussion more difficult than it has to be honestly. And the fact that you would discredit a former venuzalen citizen in her depiction of Bernie being simmilar to Chavez when she lived under the regime is highly disheartening to say the least. Other socialistic counties' dismal financial statues should be a warning to Americans in their quest to "feel the burn". Look at Paris this past week. They were out rioting in the streets because the government was going to cut back on their paid time off and other big government policies.

I also love how your totally parced out that statistic about the 14% as a demonstration of how Bernie supporters, as a whole, don't mind tax increases. The article clearly stats that a majority of Bernie lovers are not in favor of tax increases to fund the revolution.
i don't know why it is so hard to admit that? I guess admitting that nullifies the "revolution". Lol

[erin_elise_]

I presume I could have made myself more clear in my initial post. However, the article states that 66% of Bernie supporters would not support the tax increase that is NECESSARY for universal health care. Those 66% said they were only willing to pay an additional $1,000 more in taxes, when the tax will be higher than that to pay for single payer.