Do any of you people actually READ Bernie’s proposals? For that matter, stop talking about this like it is fantasy land! What he is proposing would make him MODERATE TO CONSERVATIVE in Europe, because everything he proposes already exists and is working just fine, thank you.Will it be easy? No. But when 1% of the population now owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, it’s totally clear where the money can come from – a more equitable tax code, which currently whacks the middle class and ignores a lot of unearned income held only by the rich. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States)Jesus Christ, people, the average Fortune 500 CEO makes an AVERAGE of $10.5 million a YEAR, according to Forbes, hardly a left-wing institution, and it has been continuing to go up relative to labor for thirty years. (The highest in 2012 was the CEO of McKesson, who made $112m from stock options.)And the hidden profits of corporations, as now revealed by the Panama Papers, is in the TRILLIONS.
Do any of you people actually READ Bernie’s proposals? For that matter, stop talking about this like it is fantasy land! What he is proposing would make him MODERATE TO CONSERVATIVE in Europe, because everything he proposes already exists and is working just fine, thank you.Will it be easy? No. But when 1% of the population now owns more wealth than the bottom 90%, it’s totally clear where the money can come from – a more equitable tax code, which currently whacks the middle class and ignores a lot of unearned income held only by the rich. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States)Jesus Christ, people, the average Fortune 500 CEO makes an AVERAGE of $10.5 million a YEAR, according to Forbes, hardly a left-wing institution, and it has been continuing to go up relative to labor for thirty years. (The highest in 2012 was the CEO of McKesson, who made $112m from stock options.)And the hidden profits of corporations, as now revealed by the Panama Papers, is in the TRILLIONS.