Bernie Sanders Continues to Blow Minds With His Sane Tax Policies

[Cheese Sandwich]

[merrily]

1. This week, Jon Stewart described Bernie as a perfectly rational, slightly left of center politician.

That is true. No matter what his heart may say, he operates to the right of FDR on domestic policy.

[Cheese Sandwich]

3. Yeah I don't see anything even remotely radical or extreme about his policies

The stuff he talks about is much closer to FDR and LBJ than to Eugene Debs.

[tclambert]

8. In politics, sanity is a form of insanity.

How can you expect voters to support a rational, sane candidate? That's just crazy!

[JDPriestly]

2. Bernie Sanders has a great message,, a great personality and loves people.

He could very easily win.

He really, really could.

Don't count him out so quickly. He is a serious contender. He is honest. People are so sick of sleazy politicians.

Even if someone digs up a couple of scandals from his past, he can handle it. He has been in politics, winning over Republicans for longer than most of the pundits who diss him.

Go, Bernie.

[merrily]

4. In Congress since 1991. NARAL rating 100%, HRC rating, 100%, NAACP rating 97%, ACLU rating, 93%.

http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Bernie_Sanders.htm

Founded the Congressional (House) Progressive Caucus and chaired it for the first 8 years of its existence. Continued to caucus with it after becoming a Senator because the Senate has no Progressive Caucus (though I'd bet Bernie tried to start one).

[MissDeeds]

6. +1000

It's so encouraging - they plan for hundreds at his appearances and thousands show up. Bernie's message resonates with people. He really does have a good chance of winning.

[L0oniX]

5. K & R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. Millenials like the idea of a radical shift....

That's what Obama ran on.

[Enthusiast]

10. I'll take an actual moderate shift to a fake radical shift any day.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Moving away from worshiping the rich would be a radical shift for America....

And that's exactly what some people do.

They actually believe the rich are actually "blessed" and are closer to God than us commoners.

It's a religion with them.

Have you ever met that type?

They blend their twisted faith with super patriotism to the point where speaking against the rich is labeled as not only blasphemy but TREASON.

Both of which they consider to be punishable by DEATH.

[Enthusiast]

12. I haven't met any. I have only seen them on TV. They are some sick fucks.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

13. I know a couple like that....

It crosses faiths too. One is a Baptist and the other is a Mormon.

Both think I'm pure EVIL.

[Enthusiast]

16. They believe that crap but think you're evil. That's rich.

We've tried Supply Side Trickle Down®. We've tried it for decades now. It has nearly destroyed us.

And finally, so many people have been hurt by these Grover Norquist/Ronald Reagan rules of the road that their ears perk up when they hear Bernie's words.

I grew up in the 1950s and 1960s. The wealthy weren't starving. They didn't feel deprived. Their job creator skills weren't lagging behind. We did things as a nation, great things. We went to the moon FFS.

The wrong people have been running this country for far too long. Time for a new team.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. I hate that term "Job Creator" because it's part of the aforementioned religion....

The rich don't "create" jobs. They think of employees as a necessary evil.

The richest ones feel ZERO obligation to pay someone enough to live. Some bosses figure if you are able to afford a new car they're paying you too much.



Then there's the other crowd that really drives me nuts.

That's the ones that honestly believe that ALL you need to get ahead is to show some spine and march into your boss's office and ASK for a raise. They act like it's still the 1960s when someone would automatically get a raise if they got married and another when the wife was expecting. That world is LONG GONE.

[Enthusiast]

26. I understand the job creator thing is the Right's most successful meme. It has no basis in reality.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

28. And Millenials know that thanks to the intertubes.

[Enthusiast]

29. Thank God for the intertubes!

[azmom]

18. Millenials want less educational debt and jobs after graduation.

My daughter is 20 and a huge Bernie supporter.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Your daughter knows in Europe it's free.

[azmom]

21. Yes. Her best friend, who she met on the Internet, lives in Scottland.

She will be starting her junior year and is starting to worry about her loans and her job prospects.

She loved Warren for addressing the student debt crises and now is a Bernie supporter.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Old Reaganites are in a PANIC about this generation.....

The propaganda about the Reagan Years worked on their parents but this generation grew up listening to those parents talk like Pod People about Reagan like he's their Lord and Savior while reading about Iran Contra and watching the failure of Supply Side Economics.

[azmom]

25. She literally rolled on the ground laughing

When I told her how my generation bought into the whole trickle down economic theory.
It was pretty embarrassing.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

27. And yet it's still considered to be government policy....

Obama spoke against it but raising taxes on the rich even a few percent has been called "risky".

[Alittleliberal]

30. The internet changed the game

Lot's of millennials are taking advantage of the information available and have a superb understanding of the status que. They're pissed. All they see is a bunch of old assholes who ruined everything while the only rational people lat the time were ignored. Bernie is speaking to their concerns.

[azmom]

32. My 20 year old is pissed and I don't blame her. She's trying to do

The right thing by getting an education, but all she can see in front of her is a mountain of debt and no job after graduation. She's pissed and so are all her friends. She didn't know about Bernie when he first announced he was running, but I told her to look him up on the Internet and now she is a huge fan and telling her friends about him.

[project_bluebook]

9. Its so refreshing finally seeing a presidential candidate

who isn't a slave to the wall street banksters, even though many Americans are.

[zeemike]

14. I would like to sit this guy down and give him a lecture on the power of negative thinking.

He says it is highly unlikely he will win...and yet says the message resonates with most people.
He has accepted the false premise that money and power trumps all, and forgets that people vote for the candidate.

[daleanime]

17. Amen.....

[yuiyoshida]

15. K&R

[SmittynMo]

19. 90% over 4M. Obviously too high? "No" said Bernie!!!!

and 98% of the people would approve. Only Bernie Sanders!!! Ya gotta love him.

And when they debate? I can see Hilliary now, when she can't actually argue against him. He states NOTHING but the truth. And we all know the truth shall set you free. Sam: "They can't find and angle, quite frankly, to stop him". That's 100% accurate. And they won't stop him. I think it's time to shake up Washington, and start to give the government back to the people.

I can't wait. I've never been this pumped up about an election, in my entire life.

GO Bernie, GO!!!

[azmom]

22. There is no stopping the revolution.

Go Bernie Go!

[BeanMusical]

31. Sir, please keep this up until November 2016

Please. We need you.

[kenfrequed]

33. The media outlets are a bit stunned

They really don't do well with discussions about policy. Many of Bernie's interviews have had the interviewers try to bait him into bad mouthing his opponents.

Bernie completely moves the question to being about policy and the working class.