Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Full interview: Bernie Sanders, September 27" video.

  1. Bernie Sanders, all rhetoric and no specifics. We have a lot of foolish people in our country.
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  2. +Keith Barrett I have read and heard of what he says. He has no specifics. Pick any economic policy of Bernie Sanders and I can break down how he one, has no specifics, and two that particular policy won't work.
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  3. +Odin_NtR I agree the current tax system is unfair. You want to fix it? Go back to a tax on the states and remove all other federal taxes. It worked fine for almost 140 years. Bernie is a career politician, that is another problem I have with him. He is concerned about winning which is why he has no specifics and he dodges questions dealing with them.
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  4. +flyingboat Considering he oversaw the slowest recovery ever after a recession and one of the worst times we have had economically in this country it is safe to say I am right. I bet you think David Shula was a great NFL coach as well.
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  5. +Shawn Dupuis He "free college" he says will raise $47 billion at the federal level with the states covering $23 billion. The states won't be able to do it with a stock market increase. So no, it won't bring in $300 billion. Plus the current student loan debt is $1.2 trillion, that is much larger than $300 billion. FICA taxes are a reason why wages are low. Eliminating the cap won't do anything. And expanding medicare how? Which what money? Taxing the rich an extra tenth of a percent won't cover it. Bernie has no detail plans. The number one problem with Bernie is that he wants to add more layers of government. Every problem we have in this country are related to the federal government touching it in some ways. Adding more government will make it worse. That has been proven. High healthcare cost and stagnate wages are due to the FICA tax. Expanding it will make it worse. High college tuition is due to the federal government getting involved with college loans. Making it "free" will make it worse. How does Bernie plan on fixing the problem of limited professors, limited dorms, limited classrooms etc.? He doesn't have a plan. Bernie never ran Vermont. He was a mayor and then a senator. He was never governor. Even with that VT has high cost of living, low home ownership rate, and has one of the highest rates of drug use in the country.
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  6. +Shawn Dupuis No, I will demand that my loans be paid off now along with others. The point is that the money is not there, even from Bernie's own numbers. He never said $300 billion, nobody but you have. Bernie is bad at math but you seem to be worse. Even with that how do you address the issue of lack of dorms, lack of classrooms, lack of professors? How will healthcare spending decrease? You never explained that. My overall problem with Bernie is that if you take any one of his policies and break they down they simply won't work. It is start to come out with you. You say remove the cap on SS. Ok, how are you going to stop employers from stop giving out raises? FICA taxes are the reason why wages are stagnated in several ways. How are you going to prevent those with money from moving money to prevent paying that higher tax? It is easy to change payroll? And with healthcare, how are you going to prevent the rising cost? Same with college education, you are starting to fall apart in your argument. You even realize that there are not many professors and classrooms. Plus you $300 billion is made up. Breaking down every single one of Bernie's policies shows that it won't work. The money is not there to raise $300 billion in taxes, that is simple math. The reason why healthcare is so expensive is from the government.
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  7. +Shawn Dupuis If everyone entitled to a "free college" then my loans, along with others should be paid off. That will become an issue. I have a degree, so do several other with loans. They are people that showed they had the ability to go to college and finished. So they deserve their right to a free college. If other people are going to get it so do ones that already got it. That will get brought up and it will become an issue. Or do you not feel that everyone who is capable deserves a "free education"? On people getting raises, SS is paid for by a payroll tax. When a company pays higher wages it has to pay a payroll tax. If you remove a cap than companies will pay less. It is that simple. That is why there was a cap to begin with, companies pay into FICA taxes as well. Higher taxes will mean lower wages to avoid the higher rate. Who has a detail plan? Not many people yet. The problem is that Bernie's plans are too radical as is even without details. I can take every single one of his economic policies and show how it simply won't work. Other politicians you currently can't do that with. That shows the level of extreme Bernie is. Healthcare is more expensive because of the federal government. How come other areas of the market that were not touched by the federal government (and when I say that I mean whose funding was strongly effected by the federal government) have gotten better and cheaper? There is a very strong correlation there. You may be done wasting time with me which is fine. At times I hope Bernie wins. It is like a kid touching a hot pan and learning not to touch it again. After Bernie gets elected and things get worse maybe people will learn how poor he is. But FDR was elected 4 times despite his policies led us through the worse economic times this country has seen. People can be not so bright at times.
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  8. +Shawn Dupuis I heard what you said. You said a tax on wallstreet will raise $300 billion. Not even Bernie says that. He says $47 billion. Where do you get your numbers from?
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  9. +flyingboat Public schools, police and fire department are all locally funded. Something even Milton Friedman supported.
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  10. +flyingboat And FDR was one of the worst presidents ever. Watch the video I linked, it is very interesting.
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  11. +flyingboat My ideas are radical? But not Bernie Sanders? We literally can't afford his ideas just like we could not afford FDR's policies. Under FDR we saw the slowest recovery ever from a recession. We saw massive spending and debt increase. It eventually took the war, and his death to lead to recovery from the recession. Anyone who thinks that FDR is one of the best is wrong. FDR led us through a slow recovery, threaten to stack the courts to violate the constitution, and expanded the size of the federal government which created the problems we have now. Yes what you listed is socialist. As Milton Friedman said there is a role for government, but you have to keep it as local as possible to see that you are getting your moneys worth. At the federal level you feel that you are spending someone else's money, but they are spending yours as well. At the federal level you have more waste. And at the federal level you have less control of the government thus you have more chances for corruption.
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  12. +flyingboat Now think about what you said. You called me a radical when I simply suggest we follow what the founding fathers wanted, a limited government and state rights. Meanwhile you want the federal government to control healthcare, to control college education (when it does not even control K-12 education), to raise the min. wage over 100% of what it currently is, to pay for over $1 trillion dollars for rebuilding infrastructure which means what? (and also that money does not exist). But yet I am radical, not Bernie......really?
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  13. +Zak Loveland What infrastructure needs to be rebuilt? And is there a demand for it? That is what I am asking. We can build building left and right, but if nobody demands it we might as well dig holes in the ground.
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  14. +flyingboat 1. My ideas are not opinions. But besides that point, I find it ironic that you call my ideas radical when you support Bernie who wants, a $15/hr min. wage, over twice the current, "free" college when the federal government does not even control K-12 education, "free" healthcare, infrastructure spending that off of Bernie's own numbers we can't afford on top of other policies of Bernie that expand the federal government. Under FDR we saw a slow recovery. Every other recession took around 5 years to recover from except for two, the current one now and the great depression. Under FDR we saw a slow recovery and every text book knows that which is why it was called the Great Depression. Half of the founding fathers did not want to expand the federal government in 1787. Only Alexander Hamilton wanted it. That is why after the War of 1812 when a federal income tax was suggested it was denied. 2. Bernie Sanders is not moderate. He supports massive expansion of the federal government. And when Bernie is gone what is going to prevent future politicians from taking advantage of the new power the federal government has? That is the exact same problem FDR created. That is the worse part about Bernie Sanders. Never mind that he does no have any specifics on his policies, he wants to create a system that future politicians can take advantage of. You have yet to present facts, all you present is rhetoric. How is Bernie a "moderate"? He supports expansion of the federal government. That is the complete opposite of a "moderate" That is similar to someone who wants no government, it is just on the other side. "My advice? Use actual evidence to support your claims in the future instead of citing crazy conspiracy videos" Says the person who doesn't cite anything as well and feels Bernie is a "moderate".
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  15. +bob ewell What textbook did he cite? I don't see it. Just saying something is textbook is not citing a textbook. People like my comments, others don't. I learned that those who don't aren't too bright.
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  16. +realscummy I know they are socialized. I really don't have a problem with socialism in the US as long as it is done at the state and local level.
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  17. +grvonny It is my money as well. I say you should not get a dime.
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  18. +grvonny Typical Bernie Sanders supporter response.
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  19. +grvonny Ok, pick any economic policy of Bernie Sanders and I can break down how it simply won't work.
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  20. +SodaBoy628 Nobody paid that 90% rate. If I were rich I would love to have that rate from the 50s and 60s with 50s and 60s technology and deductions.
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  21. +SodaBoy628 In 1967 there were 155 Americans earning over $200,000 that years and paid zero taxes. One of them earned over $23 million. Why do you think the Tax Reform Act of 1969 was passed?
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  22. +SodaBoy628 http://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4020&context=clr Page 173, and that is just one of many I can provide. That fact that you immediately went to "Fox News" shows you lack interest in actually learning the subject, but hopefully you can learn this.
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  23. +SodaBoy628 Ok, try page 413. The link went to a different article which is the same, just numbered differently. "People like you are why Americans have a bad reputation in other countries." A little butt hurt when you get proven wrong.
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  24. +SodaBoy628 I stated the fact and even cited it and it was not from Fox News.
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  25. +grvonny Out of everyone running I feel that John Kasich is the best. He has flaws but no where near as mean as Bernie. At least John has understanding of economics.
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  26. +grvonny How does John Kasich believe in corporate welfare? Corporations earn a lot of profits to keep shareholders happy. That means better goods and services for the consumer at a lower price and more convenient locations. The consumer benefits in that situation.
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  27. +Joe Greg If you are rich than you provided society with something they demanded already. You are making it sound like that someone who is rich is naturally born that way.
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  28. +calum morrison If you raise the min. wage than there will be kids who won't have any job.
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  29. +grvonny College is expensive due to the federal government as well.
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  30. +Ezequiel Aguilar I don't agree with corporate welfare either.
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  31. +Ezequiel Aguilar I guess you didn't read my next comment where I corrected the page number. The original document I read had a page 173, the one I linked (same one overall, different link) had it on a different page "dumbass".
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  32. +grvonny The amount of money someone has means nothing if we don't have any wealth. We need to grow wealth. Buy doing that goods and services get better and cheaper. Money is meaningless if people don't have wealth.
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  33. +grvonny I am not saying that. You need to learn that wealth does not equal income. In order to get wealth you have to develop it. Wealth only exist when one develops it. When you learn that wealth does not equal income then we can move on with the discussion.
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  34. +grvonny Wealth does not start with money. You can have wealth and no money. If someone values something they can obtain it without money. Money was created to solve two problems in the market, the double incidents of wants problem, and the retention of value problem. But as a whole you don't need money to have wealth. Definition of wealth is : a large amount of money and possessions: the value of all the property, possessions, and money that someone or something has: a large amount or number Money is involved but it does not start there. "starving wage" What exactly does that mean? You do know that we produce too much food as a society right now.
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