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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Sanders has said: 
"Cutting poverty and inequality is worth a reduction in innovation, and oh by the way, the kinds of things we call ‘innovation’ are often little more than new marketing gimmicks with dubious social value.” 
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Sanders didn't actually say that. Maybe you can get a real quote and we can discuss that?
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Ok, so his deodorant argument wasn't saying that if you essentially cut innovation you can help the poor?

https://myleftblogosphere.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/bernie-sanders-deodorant-argument-is-one-of-the-most-substantive-of-the-campaign-so-far-2/[/quote]

Here is his "deodorant argument":

"If 99 percent of all the new income goes to the top 1 percent, you could triple it, it wouldn't matter much to the average middle class person. The whole size of the economy and the GDP doesn't matter if people continue to work longer hours for low wages and you have 45 million people living in poverty. You can't just continue growth for the sake of growth in a world in which we are struggling with climate change and all kinds of environmental problems. All right? You don't necessarily need a choice of 23 underarm spray deodorants or of 18 different pairs of sneakers when children are hungry in this country."

His argument was about growth, not innovation.
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