Establishment feminists see Hillary as a legitimate intellectual who put her career among the Ivy League elect on hold to be with her husband in Arkansas. She has no doubt impressed important people one on one over the years. He embarrassed her. Older feminists would see her election as a triumph for a whole generation of upper echelon women who subordinated themselves to their husbands. Younger feminists probably don't see things quite the same way. They don't like being told "trust us" by the establishment more than anyone else. They take certain things for granted. They may see her experiences and how she chose to respond in a different light. They owe consumer and student loan debt to the banks that fund Hillary. Bernie's message of free college and regulating the banks sounds appealing. It is both generational and economic.
Bernie plans to double the size of the federal government. I'm not sure his numbers add up. Revenues have to be doubled. That's huge. The transaction tax won't bring in anywhere near 300 billion. If it goes through, America will cease to be a global venue for liquid tradable markets. Or wallstreet will invent new securities to trade that skirt the law. Similar to the uk. So he's already in the hole at least 250 billion. In reality in order to double revenues taxes have to be doubled. So whatever rate ur paying now double it. The idea the 1 percent will sit here and let the irs take what? Another 20 percent of their income. Maybe more? Again. Capital flight. Money votes with it's feet. This is all a moving target and sanders hasn't factored that In.
In previous eras when the U.S had high income tax rates of 90% on the wealthy, not a single wealthy person paid the high income tax. They all moved their assets offshore and not a single rich person paid income tax in the U.S. Recently when France greatly increased income taxes on the wealthy a similar situation occurred.
Exactly. It baffles me on a trading website members are touting socialism as the answer to our problems. No. The answer is capitalism. Free markets. There's something very corrupt about American education that has tuition many orders of magnitude more costly then other nations. The new wall street are the universities and colleges raping the kids for a diploma that is often worthless. Similar to obamacare and artificial state boundaries for insurance companies. These are all contrived markets that jack up costs and pass them on to the public. The answer is to legalize competition. Get rid of protected markets. Open up accreditation to any college that can pass the test. Philosophically Bernie's solutions are wrong because they reject free market solutions and turn the country decidedly towards socialism. Fiscally they won't work. People vote with their feet. Very dangerous to play these games at 20 trillion national debt. Dangerous is the wrong word. Suicidal is the word. Bernie is about socialism and oppressive taxation. That isn't going to turn this economy around. We need to create wealth. Not destroy it. That's why trump is the superior candidate. Ending Offshoring and bring american manufacturing back to America will literally pull America back from the economic precipice we are now teetering on. I mean this is a trading website and people can't figure this out. Wth
same with house prices to some degree. when people buy houses they are typically buying a mortgage payment and then getting the house to match it. govt interference with the market typically just drives up prices making houses less affordable for all.
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Bernie's wife, Jane, was the President of Burlington College and decided in '10 that the college needed a big new campus. So she got the college on the hook for a 10 million dollar loan and the college nearly went kaput because the donations she said would come in to get the loan, didn't come in. Was she just wildly optimistic of the donations that would come in or was it fraud? That issue is currently under review. However, the college kicked her out of her job for the debacle, but not before giving her, the wife of a senator who rails against golden parachutes for executives, a 200k golden parachute to leave. Bernie's a fraud just like his economics. http://googleweblight.com/?lite_url...942271&sig=ALL1Aj6VPjThnnzvvIXQpd_RavbOS_jNgg
The history of Bernie's wife as President of a small struggling college from 2004 to 2011 that took out a loan attempting to save itself - is well known. She took a $200,000 payment (as per her contract) to leave when the board decided to get rid of her. Nothing unusual here. I view individuals, who have no relation to the situation, digging it up and filing legal complaints now over it as pure politics. Especially seeing the complainants are Hillary donators.