Blooomberg is trying to buy it with his mney and Bernie with our future tax dollars.

They are all loosers

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Don’t blame Bernie, blame Citizens United.

Still beating that dead horse...

Why are we not surprised

cant you donate to the donald trump presidential campaign?

idk it seems like youre kinda mad...

eyy it's called "donations", and it's through grassroots support he gets them

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He is not talking about campaign finance on Bernie's behalf. He is talking about Sander's offering free everything to his voters, but the money for the "free" programs comes from everyone through taxation. So yes, Bernie is trying to buy the election with everyone else's money

Trump's preferred method of paying (or not paying) for programs? Cut taxes without doing much of anything at all to cut spending.

So: by the same token, you could say that Trump is buying the election with future generations' money.

Someone has to pay at the end of the day. Sanders just wants rich people and companies to pay more, and average people to get more.

Dear dumb dumb, if you taxed the rich at 100% of their wealth, yes their WEALTH, not income, you still wouldn't have enough money to pay for Sander's programs.

So, guess who pays. Everyone, not just the rich.

I’m not going to sit here and claim that Sanders favors a balanced budget. He doesn’t, and he’s not going to if elected.

But: massive deficits have been a thing for several presidential terms now. Both Republican and Democrat.

Some trace our massive budget deficits back to Reagan, but George W. Bush really took the brakes off with those unnecessary forever wars, tax cuts, Medicare Part D, etc. etc.

Obama and Trump haven’t really done anything to reign it in, either.

Fiscal responsibility is out the window, basically. The GOP has had several chances to prioritize it, and they didn’t.

In ‘16 y’all nominated Trump, not Rand Paul or some other true fiscal conservative, and since then Paul Ryan has been unceremoniously tossed, so don’t come crying to me about this.

LOL..that's some top notch rationalizing right there. So because other Presidents have been, in your opinion, poor at keeping deficits down, it's okay that Sanders would explode the deficit and national debt to levels that would exceed the amount of all previous administrations combined.

Got it.

By chance are you a millennial? I am a millennial. But I am one of the few who is financially literate.

Sanders is not going to get all his policies through. No president ever does. Trump did not even get the famous wall.

One policy I’d like to see Sanders fight for, and I think he will if elected, is healthcare reform that will actually address the underlying costs of health care. Which has ballooned to 20% of our GDP, way higher than other comparable countries. That’s what’s driving the endless premium increases and forcing people into bankruptcy, etc. Real comprehensive health reform would, in fact, save us all money in the end (we’d be paying more in taxes but less in premiums). Though it would make some disgustingly wealthy doctors, hospital administrators, and insurance companies less rich.

One policy I do criticize Sanders for us blanket student debt forgiveness. This would be a massive giveaway to a class of people who should be pretty well-off financially in the long run, particularly medical/law/engineering students and such. But I don’t think that policy will ever be enacted. Some lesser reform of the student debt system seems more probable, and would be welcome.

What sets Sanders apart from other candidates is how frank he’s been about the need for tax rises to pay for stuff. Some of it will go on the national debt, but he has been open about how to finance it.

I am indeed a millennial.

No he has not been open about how to finance his programs. You just claimed the wealthy would pay for it through tax increases. Thats bullshit. Sure Sanders would tax the wealthy, but everyone would have to pay higher taxes. It's just not mathematically possible to have the rich pay for everything he is promising

Bernie’s said over and over and over again that he’s going to raise taxes on the rich, so that much is clear.

But he’s also said that he thinks “most Americans wouldn’t mind paying higher taxes.” That’s an eyebrow raiser, since most Americans hate paying taxes.

More precisely, I think what Sanders is saying is this: Americans wouldn’t mind paying more in taxes, *if* they felt like government ran properly and they got a return on their investment. Just like they do in Denmark.

An even more concrete example: If you’re paying $150/month more in taxes to finance “Medicare-for-all” but as a result you no longer have to spend $300/month in health insurance premiums, then who’s not going to take that deal?

Only those who turn red immediately at the thought of paying anything labeled a “tax”

"An even more concrete example: If you’re paying $150/month more in taxes to finance “Medicare-for-all” but as a result you no longer have to spend $300/month in health insurance premiums, then who’s not going to take that deal?"

Sure who wouldn't want that. And if you have that deal, you probably have a unicorn you want to sell me too!

No, most American's do want Sander's vision of cradle to grave big government. Sorry. A majority of his supporters are Millennials and Gen-Z. And the vast majority of millenials are financiall illiterate and don't understand that his fairy tales are bullshit because that can't do basic math.

"Sorry. A majority of his supporters are Millennials and Gen-Z. And the vast majority of millenials are financiall illiterate and don't understand that his fairy tales are bullshit because that can't do basic math."

and the majority of boomers can't google economics lmao. try again

Unicorns or not, Bernie's health care reform is the most credible plan out there to actually bring down the cost of health care.

Other countries spend 10% of GDP on healthcare. We spend about 20%. Here's a chart that expresses that discrepancy in per capita terms. Some of these countries are even less than half the U.S.

Even more remarkably, they achieve similar or in many cases even better health care results based on life expectancy. I found another chart that expresses that.

So: translating a family's current hypothetical $300/month premium payment into $150 in taxes under a Bernie-like plan is not really that much of a unicorn to sell.

Here's the other chart I was talking about.

In plain terms: America is indeed exceptional on this issue. Exceptionally bad.

Trump's tax cuts didn't add three trillion to the deficit. Spending did. Go look it up. Since the tax cuts whent into effect, federal tax receipts INCREASED.

are you one of these morons who believes that higher tax rates means higher tax revenues? You do realize, that isn't the case right?

Congress controls spending, and budgets. Not the President.

It's called Separation of Powers.

if only woodrow wilson wasn't president. then separation of powers would actually be effective

Yup. Super cool story.

Considered the US government doesn't pay the interest on the already outstanding debt we owe and they just refinance into a larger debt position, that makes sense the debt would increase.

But that increase wasn't attributable to Trump's tax cuts. As tax revenues increased.