The naysayers claim he's talking about a redistribution of wealth - but one has to remember that over the past 30 or 40 years we've already had a huge redistribution of wealth in this country - it all went to the rich - which is also where almost all of the new wealth goes right now. Sander's concepts will work and they've worked in the past - look at Franklin Roosevelt as a prime example of this. Personally I would rather see my tax dollars spent on sending kids to college rather than sending them to prison - and what you call a freebie actually pays for itself in time and makes society a better place for everyone to boot.

Ummmm - even if you took away 100% of the wealth of the 1%, you still couldn't pay off the national debt. So how do you propose that we pay down some of (what will soon be - thanks to Obama) our 20 trillion dollars in debt if we are spending all of our tax money on freebies?

BTW, Franklin Roosevelt was not one of my heroes. IMHO, his policies prolonged the misery of the Great Depression - much like Obama's policies have, in large measure, kept us from recovering from the Great Recession.