Who do you support for the Democratic nomination?

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raising the minimum wage is one of his main planks. that's not stealing. it's stopping stealing of labor for wages that no one can subsist on. we already have substantial socialism: roads, police, medicare (wildly popular) are examples. i think we can tolerate a bit more. capitalism works best when it is well-regulated.

Wrong, like most everything else you say, but this one is so baldly, measurably wrong that it's comical. Socio-economic mobility is lower in America than in almost any other developed nation (Britain does slightly worse).

Not that I believe in it, but if the guvmint's gonna have a hand in college why not cap the costs? Then it would be much more affordable. It's certainly a more palatable alternative than giving money away to those that havent earned it (and many never will ).

Same as for college.

Dress warmer (or cooler depending on how the climate's "changing" that year).

Create a "climate" that's more free enterprise friendly. Only a fool (or a derelict) believes more taxes are the answer.

Same as for poverty

Public K-12 education can be taxpayer funded. The tax dollars going to that would be quite sufficient if we would scrape out the co$tly layer$ of bureaucracy between the money and the end user.

Same as for K-12 education.

many more jobs have been created under the more regulations and higher taxes administrations of democrats than fewer regulations and lower tax administrations of republicans.

And retailers (and everyone else we have to pay for stuff and services) won't seize the golden opportunity to raise prices? Or are we going to tell them that they can't and waste resources policing them?



^ Nothing in there about cops and medicare.


Regulated or throttled out of practical existence to the point that communism , ahem, I meant "socialism" is a seemingly viable solution?

Next?

if mcdonalds paid its employees $15 per hour, the cost of a big mac would go up $.17. that's not a hardship, especially when one considers what we pay in food stamps to subsidize micky d.

if roads, police, and medicare aren't socialism, neither is medicare for all and free public college and bernie is not a socialist.

what we have now is socialism (corporate welfare) for the super rich and rugged individualism for the working poor.

What about machines? You don't need to raise the price of burgers. You can fire 2/3 of the cashiers, replace them with kiosks, and raise the pay for the remaining workers.

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That wasn't what I was talking about but whatever.....

gonna happen anyway, with or without wage increase.

I look for that to become standard in the foreseeable future (10 yrs +/-). I'm not saying I'll like it (I probably won't like it) but it's what's coming, good or bad.

One of the solutions - and one that will ensure less money is spent on tuition overall.

A single-payer healthcare system and reducing drug spend (by doing things like focusing on generic drugs, which are no less effective but are just out of patent) will ensure that you can achieve his solutions with little or no extra taxation.

Less spending on greenhouse gas emitters, more on renewable energy.

Plus justice reform, healthcare reform, immigration reform, education reform, and raising the minimum wage... and three of those things theoretically involve less government spending.

Actually, his main solution seems to be "ending No Child Left Behind", which is widely recognised as a disastrous policy.

That's a name other people (you're the first I've seen use it) have given him. I may as well say "you're only anti-tax because you're Dubya LoveNotHate".

Essentially, put up or shut up. Suggest evidence-based solutions for these problems which don't involve taxation on the people who cause them, and then you can criticise them. If that's too hard, show that his solutions won't work.

If you criticise somebody just because they don't fit with your ideology, then you've got to show that they're the problem, and not your ideology.

There's a chain of gas stations called Sheetz that's had this kind of compri system for customers for at least 10 years at their fast-food counter.

There are:
- videos of him surrounded by people dressed as Robin Hood with Robin Hood signs
- websites that promote his agenda present him as Robin Hood
- media calls one of his taxes the "Robin Hood tax"

I would think at some point he would ask why people are dressed in costumes at his speeches. Unless he already knows why they are, and he is OK with people characterizing him this way.

At the very least, since he wants to be president, he should be able to stand up for himself and say, "look I am not the bandit you characterize me as". He doesn't though.




Left wing economics can be fabulous ideas, however, they don't work because of human greed.

Bernie is probably a very nice guy, who really cares for people, and really wants to fix poverty, injustice and suffering. However, his plans to raise tax revenue to "fight" these problems won't work; It never works. It's foolish and destructive. And taxing is not moral IMO. I can't get past the "I am entitled to someone else's money".

What happens is that when money becomes available then people want that money for themselves.

For example, people want raises, to hire more staff, fund new spending projects, remodel the office, new computers, new company cars, trips for employees , middle men show up offering new services .... and sooner or later, hey, we need more money!

Capitalism is the answer. Services paid directly by the consumer. So the money does not pass through a 1000 greedy hands.

Why of course I'm wrong. All those immigrants without a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of have and continue to flock to the US of A just to worsen their lot. Forget about all the business they have started practically with nothing but hard work and have built into small empires.

Hell, I almost have more respect for the local drug lord that built his own empire out of poverty over some derelict that's happy to do nothing with his life but sit in his own s**t and cry for help from the guvmint and expend all his energies resenting the rich and even those to actually do something for themselves.

Whatever, though......