Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Bernie Nets Huge Endorsement Of 600,000 Families" video.

Arlando Little I currently pay 4.41% of my income in insurance premiums, and I still have to pay co-pays and deductibles. Under Bernie's plan, that would be 1.58% with no costs at the point of service. Workplace Democracy requires employers to pass on the savings from Medicare for All to the worker. For me, that's $359 every other week. Would I rather pay the tax than the premium? You bet, I would!
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@LD-tn6ff Then, why does the board make six figures and get 50% of the vote? They aren't 50% of the membership.
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Viewer Discretion Is a Myth What is impressive about Buttigieg? He did such a good job in South Bend that his vote plummeted from 2011 to 2015. He is suddenly learning about problems like school segregation on his way out the door. He faked the endorsement of black SC voters. He said when he started his campaign that Medicare for All is the compromise position with NHS being the true left stance, and now he is using Republican talking points on Medicare for All and free public college or trade schools, even though he benefited from the elite system. He is a joke.
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Viewer Discretion Is a Myth If Buttigieg is accomplished, what has he actually accomplished?
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Arlando Little It used to be that manufacturing was considered the unskilled work that paid the least. Now, it is the highest-paid blue collar work around. If you are fine with companies paying starvation wages, and with wages stagnating overall for 40 years, have it, but I am holding out for something better.
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Flightof2Owls At this point, I think that people like Armando are proof of the idea that if someone else makes a little less than they do, they will insist that those even higher somehow deserve it, too. I remember hearing a conservative defend a flat tax with the idea that by working hard and making $30,000/year, he shouldn't be "punished" and pointed to someone on welfare, not realizing that he was in the bottom tax bracket, anyway.
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Arlando Little So, unless people are homeless or don't have heat, they aren't "really poor"? Having an apartment is hardly the lap of luxury.
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@juanasenjo8515 Also that Workplace Democracy will require employer savings from Medicare for All to be passed on to the worker. For most people, that is thousands of dollars a year.
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@LD-tn6ff Maybe they don't have half of their votes going to superdelegates the way WFP did to make sure someone like Bernie wouldn't get their endorsement, just like the DNC pushed them after 1980 to make sure someone like Jimmy Carter wouldn't (since they convinced themselves that Kennedy's late surge meant that he was the stronger candidate).
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@LD-tn6ff Oh, and they added taking half of the vote in 2017 after the election. No one complained when there were actual democratic elections and someone else won fair and square. When I hear that Warren got 61% and the board got half, that tells me that 22% of members and 100% of the board voted for her. If it were otherwise, they would have released the breakdown.
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Flightof2Owls Well, if it is taxes for the sake of the deficit, of course. If it is a tax increase that leads to actual services and saving money overall, that is far different. The top tax bracket was never below 70% from 1936-1981, and Democrats were dominant for most of that time.
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