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>I admit that I am inclined to "vote my pocketbook". For me it looks like the tax bill means I pay $2000 less in taxes. As for the health insurance I think the ACA is intergenerational theft - just another government Ponzi scheme. Personally the only thing the ACA has done for me is for my wife to "keep your doctor" she now has to pay $1650 a year to join some kind of network.

Agreed.
Anytime a bill is passed without a single vote by the other party, it usually means that an awful lot of people don't understand it, don't like it, or both.
It never should have been enacted.
All it did was enrich some insurers and annoy an awful lot of people.
There are some features that were good, but the bad features poisoned the whole well.

However, the same thing I said above can be said about the tax bill.
The dems will be dancing in the streets if it passes.

>>As for Bernie, he is a socialist and I am definitely not.
I don't look at what people call themselves.
I look at what they do and at what they advocate.
What is socialist about this?
“We live in a difficult and dangerous world, and there are no easy or magical solutions…America must defend freedom at home and abroad, but we must seek diplomatic solutions before resorting to military action. While force must always be an option, war must be a last resort, not the first option.

As a member of Congress, I have supported the use of force only when it was a last resort and America’s vital interests were at stake. I opposed the first Gulf War, as did many other Members of Congress, because I believed that there was a way to achieve our goals without bloodshed, through sanctions and concerted diplomatic action. I supported the use of force to stop the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. And, in the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001, I supported the use of force in Afghanistan to hunt down the terrorists who attacked us. I regret that President Bush did not use that authority properly, and that American combat troops remained there too long. I voted against the war in Iraq, and knew it was the right vote then, and most people recognize it was the right vote today. The only mission President Bush and his neo-conservative friends accomplished was to destabilize an entire region, and create the environment for al-Qaeda and ISIS to flourish.

While we must be relentless in combating terrorists who would do us harm, we cannot and should not be policeman of the world, nor bear the burden of fighting terrorism alone. The United States should be part of an international coalition, led and sustained by nations in the region that have the means to protect themselves. That is the only way to defeat ISIS and to begin the process of creating the conditions for a lasting peace in the region.”


Bernie is a common-sense advocate for middle and low income people.
Rich people don't need advocates.