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In other developed nations, Bernie's views as a whole would be considered pretty ordinary. If not upholding the political insanity that is unique to the United States makes you a "socialist", then so be it. Cool.
Are you supporting Bernie's positions more or Hillary's more? If going by electability, the latest poll shows Sanders leading Cruz by 19% in the important swing state NH, while Hillary is losing by 4% to Cruz.
The "strongest candidate" is losing to Ted Cruz in NH!!! Similar numbers regarding Trump.
People need to realize that Sanders is the strongest candidate as he has so much more cross-party appeal than Hillary and Hillary is unable to create the type of excitement that Bernie is getting which brings more people who previously didnt vote out to vote. People who support the policies of Bernie should not feel the need to pick Hillary even if they dont want to because of "electability".
I agree, however in any case electability implies the attributes of picking a candidate in the same manner that you are rooting for a sports team!
If you go by how electable a candidate is rather than position, then if you vote for a candidate who does not represent your views yet gets into office, what have you gained? You can say "whohoo" my candidate won! OK, but what if that candidate doesn't do anything you want for the next 4 years? What have you accomplished? Nothing!
Voting for a candidate on what you believe in should NOT be connected to the odds of a candidate winning. You should vote for a candidate based on principles, and if the person loses, oh well there's next time (kind of like a lottery ticket!). However, if enough people think like you, then the odds of a candidate getting in gets better.
We need to quit thinking of elections like sports games. When the football season is over, our lives just go on as always as if nothing happened. When an election season is over, our lives can dramatically be impacted based on what we do. I only have to point out the last 16 years as evidence of what I'm talking about.
This is probably the only shot we have to vote on a clear cut choice (Bernie vs Hillary), don't blow it!
Why should dirt poor students with good grades not be allowed to go to public uni, while a rich lazy kid with bad grades in HS can? Tuition free college levels the playing field somewhat. Its called a meritocracy.
And why can't poor kids take loans or work hard and get academic scholarships? Sounds like sour grapes to me? I wasn't from a rich family and I did not ask for my college tuition to be paid for by everyone else..
This also doesn't take into account the billions in bad loans the government took from them and placed in F&F. And who has to pay that off? The taxpayers.
Then we have to consider the billions the Fed paid the banks in interest for holding the money taxpayers gave them in the first place.
Do I need to continue?
Shouldn't you find out before condemning him? He plans on a small tax on each trade made on Wall Street. As I said, getting the taxpayers a little of their money back.
And I am not for a small tax on trades, how is taxing money I invest with a broker, giving money back to me, it is being redistributed to someone else....
If Bernie could, he'd restructure the tax code to break up large fortunes and distribute them more evenly toward the middle and working classes. This is what they do in the democratic socialist countries he admires. I think this is great. There is very little Bernie and I diagree on.
So you mean, you are for confiscating some ones wealth, someone who's family has worked years to obtain, through starting a business or having an invention or making an investment that grows....you are for, saying, once someone gets so much money (fortune), that it should be forcible taken, and redistributed to the middle class....so they can spend it on comforts of life? And that is Bernie's position?
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In other developed nations, Bernie's views as a whole would be considered pretty ordinary. If not upholding the political insanity that is unique to the United States makes you a "socialist", then so be it. Cool.
Those are the same nations that allow immigrant men to gang rape native women and then tell the victims they should've dressed more modest and not gone out allow after sundown. I'll pass.
So you mean, you are for confiscating some ones wealth, someone who's family has worked years to obtain, through starting a business or having an invention or making an investment that grows....you are for, saying, once someone gets so much money (fortune), that it should be forcible taken, and redistributed to the middle class....so they can spend it on comforts of life? And that is Bernie's position?
B) I believe no matter who we elect into office at the end of the day, my tax load is going nowhere but up. So, I might as well vote for someone who will distribute that load more equitably. By the way, I cannot count how many times a politician has said they were going to cut taxes, and after 4 years, my tax bill kept going up.
B) I believe no matter who we elect into office at the end of the day, my tax load is going nowhere but up. So, I might as well vote for someone who will distribute that load more equitably. By the way, I cannot count how many times a politician has said they were going to cut taxes, and after 4 years, my tax bill kept going up.
I am not sure of the numbers, but there are over 28 million small businesses in the U.S., so I would be very concerned about tax policy that affects over 50% of the US employers by number of emloyees
That’s actually not true. Bernie has never said he wants to do that. He has recently said that he is “working right now on a comprehensive tax package, which I suspect will, for the top marginal rates, go over 50 percent.”
The disheveled old guy from VT basically has ZERO CHANCE to win a general election in this country.
Bubba's wife is our BEST BET to keep a dem in there.
Do you, or your fellow MISGUIDED Bernie cheerleaders, really want another INEPT republican administration in the White House?
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