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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nader/Gore/Bush = Sanders/Clinton/Rubio. Or sanders drops out but had pulled Clinton so far left before the general that she can't win. I'm becoming so hopeless I am now wondering if the best possible outcome is trump getting the R nom and then Bloomberg jumping in. I could live with him. At least he probably wouldn't ruin the country. [/quote] Don't be afraid of Sanders. What's so scary about him? Do you like his positions? Do you think he's advocating for a kinder, smarter, fair-er America that invests in its families, children, young people? Are you afraid of your taxes going up? What exactly is it that is so scary about Sanders' campaign?[/quote] His plans for implanting his policies are simplistic and well cost way more than he has acknowledged. While affordable college is a worthy goal free college for all is not. Single payer healthcare in the US will be a disaster. I could go on. For example, widely expanding social security is not feasibl [/quote] That is not the case. Virtually every modern industrialized nation has some form of universal healthcare - except for the United States. Germany has had universal healthcare since Otto von Bismarck put it in place in 1898. Your flat-out dismissals and suggestions that it's unfeasible are not backed up by actual historical evidence to the contrary.[/quote] And yet he has no plan for paying for such a plan. [/quote] He does, actually. Repealing all the tax exclusions, deductions and the like for private and employer-provided insurance raises a shit ton of money. And a tax on Wall Street speculation (Tobin tax) would also raise a shit ton. But more to the point, it doesn't matter -- you have to take care of your people. That's a fundamental public good/duty of government. And, even MORE to the point, whatever it costs, it's still a fraction of the unfunded wars we've started in the last decade or so.[/quote]
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