Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Bernie Pulverizes GOP Tax Bill In Committee Hearing" video.

  1. Very true. Maybe be "Useless Bernie Sanders Whining Again About the Rich and No One in the Room Gives a Hoot"
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  2. So you enjoy hearing the same thing over and over again? He mentioned the rich 9 times in less than 3 minutes. If there weren't any rich people what would Bernie's speeches be like?
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  3. porculizador, not an intelligent comment. Besides that, all Bernie does is whine about rich people. Honest question, if there weren't any rich people in the US, what would be Bernie's economic plan?
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  4. "Your argument, Mr Pink, is predicated on a false notion that rich people don't exist. " They do now, but what if they no longer exist? "In a capitalist system, there will ALWAYS be a rich person." Bernie is against capitalism. " Anyone who is better off than the majority would be rich by comparison with the rest of them" I agree. However, if you put me in Ethiopia I would be rich immediately. But can I finance their entire livelihood? Or even just their healthcare and education? That is my point. Yes, we have rich people now. And assuming that simply by taxing the rich more we can pay for healthcare and education, what happens if they leave? Then what? Who do we tax? "economic progression through massive infrastructure spending (New Deal economics), promotion of national health insurance (Medicare-for-All) can be easily put in practice irrespective of a country's economic standing and ensuring that banks, investors and corporations don't screw over the people with their constant attempts to make more money than the year prior" You are missing another point. Money means nothing if people do not produce. What if people refused to work? How do you produce healthcare? How do you produce infrastructure? Bernie says that no matter what job you work you will have 1. living wage 2. healthcare 3. paid maternity 4. paid vacation 5. retirement With all of that why work hard? Why not work at McDonalds the rest of your life? This is why socialism on the large scale does not work. People get entitled and you lose rich people.
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  5. "In 1963, Bernie Sanders participated in MLK’s Civil Rights March. One of only 2 sitting US Senators to have heard MLK’s “I have a Dream Speech” in person in the march on Washington, DC." Not really an accomplishment.
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  6. You can find "list of accomplishments" for any politician that is that long, including Trump, especially when you have low standards like this " Sanders votes against the Keystone XL pipeline, which would allow multinational corporation TransCanada to transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico."
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  7. Intelligent people.
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  8. The debates killed Bernie. Cruz blew him out of the water and Bernie supports the very unpopular stance of raising everyone's taxes.
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  9. Capo Capo, the US government is $20 trillion in debt. How are they going to save me money? Also, Bernie is literally saying you have no idea how to manage your money thus he needs to do it for you. I am sorry but I can manage my money quite well. And he never mentions quality. He only mentions cost. If my quality of worse then did I save money? I let it sink in. I am not going to believe a career politician that has never managed a budget in his life telling me that he is going to save me money.
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  10. Capo Capo, even if it did save us money, in the end the people in the US do not support that idea of high taxes.
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  11. In the 50s? Really? So we can blame Obama for our economic state now?
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  12. How about we just blame George Washington. Or the Pilgrims. How far back to you want to go?
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  13. What deregulation? I think it is hard for you to comprehend.
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  14. Without watching the video I bet Bernie will rant about the rich, the 1%, deficient, and social programs. But most of it will be about the rich.
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  15. At 35 seconds is when he first talks about the rich. He mentioned the rich 9 times in either "wealthy" or "billionaires" or those in the 1%, etc. He did bring up social programs and the deficient as well. Bernie really needs to give it up.
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  16. "there are rich people who are using their money and power to make themselves richer at the expense of the poor and middle class." I agree, they are buying out politicians. So why do you want to give those same corrupt politicians more power? Sure Bernie may no be corrupt, but what about other politicians? The other 534 members of congress?
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  17. "He's not attacking the rich. He's attacking the legislation in place that allows these corporations to hide their money and/or avoid paying full taxes" Why do they hide their money? Because of high taxes. If someone was told you that they were going to break into your home on Tuesday night and steal you car, what will you do? You will hide your car? Same with corporations hiding their money. "They can make as much as they want, but pay your full tax rate." I agree, which is why I support a flat tax.
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  18. porculizador, that is not true. For example many European countries like Norway and Denmark do not have a "living wage". As for healthcare, they have limitations which is why they ration it and do not have much innovation. With paid maternity and vacation they lack in productivity. "go beat up on the homeless or whatever you sociopaths do for fun" For fun I like to read and actually know what goes on in the world. Like Denmark not having a min. wage.
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  19. "Mr Pink, you are still using a logical fallacy to portray your argument. You can't assume that rich people couldn't simply vanish" I very much can. Bernie's number topic in all of his speech is that there are rich people and they have too much money, thus we need to take from them to pay for things. What if there weren't any rich people? Or what if you tax rich people so much they are no longer rich? "More over, the US, ss it is, is a stable self-sustaining economy that, given a depression, can easily go into deficit spending like FDR did from the Great Depression and into the years of WWII. " That deficit spending that FDR did created the great depression. It hindered recovery. The only too times it took more than 5 years to recover from a recession was the recession of 1929 and the recession of 2007. They are also the only two times the federal government tried to "fix" the economy by spending. The reality is spending isn't good, what's good is producing. You can tax and spend all you want, but if people do not produce than goods do not exist. "His tax policy was brutal and his was the least demanding of the rich (Eisenhower increased taxes). It almost paid off our original debt, until low tax retards and warmongers decided that they wanted to cash in on the business of war and top-down economics." Not true. No on paid that high tax rate. In 1967 there were 155 Americans who earned more than $200,000 that paid $0 in federal taxes. That is why we had the Tax Reform Act of 1969. "I personally believe in the Scandinavian tax model of high taxation (up to 70%) for individuals and families to pay for damn public debt that both Republicans and Democrats refuse to address and cover the essentials for an educated, productive society." Funny you bring up productivity and education. The US is in the top 5 in productivity and our education system is great at the college level which is for the most part private as people pay for it out of pocket. The US has the best university system in the world. "Further incentives could be added to companies that produce locally" I agree, but that should be left to the local government, not the federal. You can't ask a government overseeing 320+ million people to micromanage like that. You praise the Scandinavian model when you need to realize those countries are smaller than many of our states.
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  20. porculizador, that $20/hr wage is not forced by the government. It was done through negotiation with unions, which is the free market. So yes, I agree, we need a free market system like that in Denmark. "there is no poverty in norway" Yes there is.
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  21. https://data.oecd.org/inequality/poverty-rate.htm
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  22. "I wrote that if there weren't any rich people there would still be plenty of issues for Sanders to deal with." I am not disagreeing. My point is what will be his approach to solve them? I never said the issues will go away, I said his solution will go away. What will be his economic plan at that point?
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  23. porculizador, I showed you how Norway does have poverty. We need to get some basic facts out of the way before we get into opinions. Now why do those countries have lower poverty rates? One factor can be population size. Smaller populations lead to less diversity and making it easier to micromanage those programs. Look at countries with 100+ million people. Out of them the US has the highest GDP per capita where Japan is the only one that is as industrialized as the US. US poverty rate is 0.175, Japan's is 0.16, not much of a difference now where Japan's economic success comes from literally working themselves to death. We have 30 states that are larger than Norway. Norway has a large oil industry because they are willing to tap into their oil. People cry about fracking in the US and we have 320+ million people. It goes way beyond them being "democratic socialist" countries. Again, Norway actually taps into their oil, Denmark has mandatory military service. Let me ask you, do you support drilling for more oil and fracking?
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  24. But again, you are the person that felt that Denmark had a min. wage and that Norway had no poverty, both facts I had to prove you wrong.
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  25. Bernie is a prime example why we need term limits. What has he done outside of politics? He could not even get electricity to his home he was so poor. He became a career politician, influenced the economy for the working man, but lived off of the government dime. Bernie is a corrupt politician. If he was so good why doesn't he give up his seat and do something else as in manage a business or run a healthcare service? He doesn't because it is much easier to use government force to get what he wants.
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  26. " good of you to admit this country has a problem that many countries in europe don't have -namely oligarchy and poverty" Every country has problems, now why? You are focusing on one things, democratic socialism when in fact many variables are at play. For example, Norway actually taps into their oil where Bernie Sanders and many of his supporters are against that. " the reason is very simple, they pass legislation to improve the standard of living of the masses" Like drilling for their oil and NOT having a min. wage. On the latter part they allow the free market to determine wages. "bernie is the only politician i know that is unpolluted and you want to call term limits on him?" Yes, because it forces politicians to do something besides be a politician. It forces them to work in society and not live off of the tax payers' dime. That influences their policy making. Would Bernie be pushing what he pushes for if he had to work in the private sector after he was done?
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  27. "don't muddy the waters with other countries i don't give a shit about." If you don't care about those countries then why are you looking at them as examples? "and bernie is one of the few politicians in washington addressing these two very issues" The issues Bernie brings up have been discussed and they are not as severe as he makes them. When he debates them with people he becomes an angry old man and shouts off talking points of "fair share" and "living wage" and "healthcare is a right".
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  28. "i bring those countries up because they're doing something right and we aren't." But you say you don't care about them when I tell you other things they do and shortcomings they have? So what is it?
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