>>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.
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>>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?
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>Hmm. Seems to me Bush raised national debt for ~6 trillion to about 12.5 (more than doubled). Under Obama it's risen to 18 - so about the same rate.
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>And, according to Forbes the 400 richest people in the US are worth about 5.7 trillion. That would make a dent :-}
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>>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.


And there he goes again... bringing facts into the discussion...