Bernie strikes me as the opposite side of the same trump coin - little more than a cult of personality with a rabid fan base with whom you cannot reason.
Bernie strikes me as the opposite side of the same trump coin - little more than a cult of personality with a rabid fan base with whom you cannot reason.
You act as if black people aren’t aware that, in 30 years, your boy hasn’t written a single piece of successful legislation. In three decades, what has Sanders ever achieved? What has he ever done that improved the lives of black people?
People do question the cost of wars, but the first 16 years of the war in Afghanistan cost about $2.4t. That already put a strain of the US budget. His plans call for dramatically increasing the annual budget, so it’s less a matter of where he wants to spend, but how much.
We’re not Republicans.
You mean put a really high nominal rate, but then let them deduct everything money is spent on:
Ideally, you wouldn’t consider getting repaid for an interest-free loan to Uncle Sam a windfall.
Yup. Neither do gains. Its all noise until you’re actually ready to make a transaction.
Explain to me how he’s incorrect.
Make college free? The people who want to go to college should pay for it themselves, rather than have money stolen from others.
except if you’re middle class and lucky enough to have a job that covers your insurance raising taxes will cost you significantly...and it’s highly unlikely you’ll get a raise to compensate
Irrelevant. HE making decisions about HER money. That's wrong any way you slice it
“free” = paid for with higher taxes
Let me summarize this rambling diatribe for the readers with 1 sentence buried within it. -
Snort. I don’t live around “affluent” people. That’s one of the reasons I can afford to save for retirement.
But don’t expect it to be your ticket to a bunch of new electronic toys if your credit history doesn’t sparkle.
The problem is, a minimum wage at a rate that provides a living wage in its given geographical areacan differ among people in that area depending on their pre-existing life circumstances. An unmarried 23 year old woman with no kids will have a much easier time at the same wage level as her 23 year old unmarried mother…
Maybe you are special, but where I work developers without degrees are not considered for progression paths. So maybe you are making ‘good money’, but the college graduates are all making ‘really good money’.