"Tax them back to the Carter age..."?

[TygrBright]

The Bloomberg Business article on Why Bernie Sanders Doesn't Want Your Vote included this bit:

"When asked before a speech in Keene, N.H., what he would say to reassure the Bloomberg Businessweek readers who work on Wall Street, or have millions of dollars, or run a hedge fund, and might be afraid he wants to tax them back to the Carter Age..."

...and recorded Bernie's response as "I’m not going to reassure them...their greed, their recklessness, their illegal behavior has destroyed the lives of millions of Americans. Frankly, if I were a hedge fund manager, I would not vote for Bernie Sanders. And I would contribute money to my opponents to try to defeat him.”

Which is an excellent, EXCELLENT response.

Also, WAY nicer than my response, which would have been to smile a certain kind of smile, and say, "The CARTER age? My dear sir, they should count themselves blessed were we to return to THAT. I was thinking of taxing them back to the EISENHOWER age."

Just sayin'...

amusedly,
Bright

[phantom power]

1. "I’m not going to reassure them"

He's doing that thing I love again. Shutting down their lazy bullshit narratives.

Exactly. Why, pray tell, do these wall street uber-menschen need "reassurance?" They should kiss the ground every day in thanks that they aren't in fucking prison.

[Cassiopeia]

3. Or their heads aren't on a pike

[LiberalArkie]

2. Very good interview.. I love this part

For an angry, self-righteous Post-it note, Sanders is pretty likable. He’s warm, thoughtful, self-aware, brave, funny, and—in that way that hippies don’t care what people think of them—cool. Sitting near a provolone-filled refrigerator in the cafeteria kitchen at Plymouth State University, he roughly pulls his sweater vest over his head, to look more formal, maybe, or to stay cool, or to achieve his hairstyle. He approaches his son Levi, a paralegal at Greater Boston Legal Services, who is about to introduce him onstage. He picks a huge piece of lint off his son’s lapel and asks, “Is this what genetics is about? He has more crap on his suit jacket than I have on mine.”

Levi nods and says, “I’m trying to make you look good.”

Sanders stands out for his earthy language. His speeches are salted with the casual “bulls---”s, “damn”s, and “crap”s that you’d expect from a cranky old liberal. He doesn’t adjust his act for different situations or audiences. Sanders is exactly the same, utterly comfortable and curious, whether speaking at the Jerry Falwell-founded Liberty University or listening politely to Black Lives Matter protesters who have bum-rushed his stage and appropriated his microphone. As the nation debated Obamacare in the summer of 2009, and Democratic lawmakers holed up in Washington to avoid angry constituents, Sanders held town halls in the most conservative parts of Vermont, staying to answer questions after most people left. His favorite tactic with a hostile audience is to declare that they won’t agree on some crucial issue such as abortion or gay rights but can come together on a far more important problem: The rich are screwing us.

[Scuba]

4. But it's wrong to criticize Wall Street, at least according to Hillary.