Bernie Sanders

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Funny how suddenly "millionaires" are no longer a problem.

none of bernie's houses are mansions. like many working-class people with multiple homes, they're to provide liveable shelters at where he works. my neighbors have a house in upstate new york as well as near where i live

while bernie has millions, he's not able to fund a campaign the way bloomberg is. keep in mind, bloomberg spent five-hundred million to get nowhere in the debates. bernie doesn't have the same resources, so instead of buying meme accounts or self-funding his campaign, he resonates with the people.

he has 3 cars. so? he also has a wife and a son. my family has 3 cars, and 3 of us are eligible to drive. one car is for bernie to go to work in.

i want to know why bernie being rich is such a gotcha for conservatives on this site when he's basically living the life of the middle class while selling books that become popular and working in politics. that's how he gets rich.

Bernie claims the rich should pay their fair share and believes in wealth redistribution, yet pays nothing even towards his *own campaign*

Whether or not his houses are mansions or whether he can pay 100% or 1% of his campaign is absolutely irrelevant to the fact that the rich 'democratic socialist' who believes in 'wealth equality' keeps all of his asserts and bank accounts in tact even when it comes to his own endeavours..

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he knows that 'the rich' includes himself.

"yet pays nothing even towards his *own campaign*"

like i said, he doesn't have the same resources bloomberg has. running for president ain't cheap, and his net worth is smaller than most of the other candidates running. honestly, the more donations a candidate receives, the better. it shows that people actually care about a candidate.

What the hell kind of an argument even is this?!
You gotta socialist running for office who's walking around telling everyone the rich need to pay-up and share the money and when that same soclalist isn't even contributing to his own campaign with his own wealth (like maybe pay some staff, some uniforms or even just get the ball rolling ) your comeback is 'well that other guys got more money'? lol man

Well I guess Hillary should come back and call herself a communist and that her #1 policy is that nobody should have anything and #2 everyone should pay their own way and when someone asks why shes keeping her money and not putting anything into her campaign, you can stop by and point to bloomberg
Crazy stuff man, think it through

"You gotta socialist running for office who's walking around telling everyone the rich need to pay-up..."

he gon' pay up too, ya know. it ain't that deep.

"...and share the money and when that same soclalist isn't even contributing to his own campaign with his own wealth..."

keep in mind that he's got 50 states to persuade. and those 50 states have many, many cities and towns. that's a lot of staffers he'll need, and a lot of advertising as well, and a net worth of 2.5 million won't cut it. bloomberg payed 500 million to do all that, and it could've succeeded if bloomberg wasn't the person he was or he got more people involved. that's why bernie needs the peoples' help.

I think its pretty strange how the guy spent the whole of 2016 talking about 'the millionaires and the billionaires' everytime he got up on stage then he became a millionaire himself after his book deal, and now he's not even said 'millionaire' in I think 8 debates running.. Still talks about the billionaires though

Looks like you're still missing the point man. It makes no difference if a couple hundred thousand isn't gonna make a big difference over 50 states, doesn't even matter what anyone else is spending -- what matters is that the socialist who wants people to pay their share hasn't put his hand in his own pocket.
Its ok saying 'bloomberg this bloomberg that' but bloomberg just showed up last week and he's campaigning for half a year.

Its like if a buddhist claims we should give all our money to charity but doesn't give his own and then you come around saying that this is fine because there's richer people out there... well so what if someones got more! the guys not leading by his own example.
Other guy isn't calling for people to pay more and more wealth distribution, bernie is... and he's doing no more or less than anyone whose up there on the stage for entirely different reasons.

i strongly doubt he expected to succeed that much off of his book.

"doesn't even matter what anyone else is spending -- what matters is that the socialist who wants people to pay their share hasn't put his hand in his own pocket."

i would need proof that he's not paying his own money into campaign because that's highly unlikely. i'd prefer that he not spend too much compared to people like pete buttigeig, who are assisted by billionaires.

"Its ok saying 'bloomberg this bloomberg that' but bloomberg just showed up last week and he's campaigning for half a year"

showing up that late **makes it even worse**. he paid the dnc to let him in after iowa.

Well he literally became a millionaire through his book deal, I'd say he did pretty well on it.. and again, interestingly stopped saying 'millionaires' in his speeches about who should be paying their fair share..
You can check that out for yourself. Any 2016 speech he's talking about the millionaires on every occasion, then in 2020 he's stopped and now just talking about people whose got more than him. Thats not a coincidence. You don't just accidentally leave out your exact tax bracket when it comes to who should be footing the bills..

He's got 3 houses, his cars, still a millionaire, same as before he campaigned so clearly nothings leaving the bank. Afterall, if he was (like he's ideologically supposed to?) he'd be running on it right?

'Im bernie sanders and I gave all I have for the democratic socialist revolution and I'm distributing my own wealth to the people who'll help me become president'
-said by bernie-- never
etc etc

Well bloomberg is a whole other topic
the point here is that you're arguing that big bucks bernie refusing to contribute to his own cause is ok because bloomberg spent more than bernie could give... well bloomberg wasn't around spending said money 4 weeks ago.. and bernie still wasn't paying up, right?

"interestingly stopped saying 'millionaires' in his speeches about who should be paying their fair share"

that doesn't mean they won't pay their fair share. through becoming a millionaire, he's learned that making millions doesn't always mean being a businessman.

"He's got 3 houses, his cars, still a millionaire, same as before he campaigned so clearly nothings leaving the bank"

how many cars? my family owns 3 cars, two of my neighbors have at least two houses, etc. i still don't see why being a millionaire is such a gotcha; he's still aiming to help the poor. it could be (the media won't tell you this) that he's receiving so many donations that his income in the campaign beats the spending.

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Sanders was one of the poorest U.S. Senators until his book deal

He is still nowhere near wealthy enough to self-fund or largely self-fund like Bloomberg or Trump

Anyway, being a millionaire and wanting to raise taxes on millionaires to pay for programs is pretty much the exact opposite of hypocrisy

Being a billionaire and cutting taxes on billionaires? That’s Trump for ya

1. "Sanders has targeted billionaires as often as ever in the eight 2020 Democratic debates that began in June. But he has not said "millionaires" during the events, according to transcript searches."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/13/bernie-sanders-says-millionaires-less-in-2020-democratic-primary.html

In 2016 'millionaires and billionaires' is in every 2nd sentence out of his mouth. Then he becomes a millionaire from all conceivable angles and suddenly it's all about the billionaires now..

2. Lol, the guys got millions, new car and 3 houses, and yet none of those bank accounts get emptied or houses or cars sold to even assist paying for his own campaign. He literally keeps his money and asks for handouts and doesn't even pretend to open his own wallet.