Eight reasons why Bernie Sanders will never become President
Eight reasons why Bernie Sanders will never become President
Before reading this, I want everyone to do ONE thing: Research. Please for the love of God and all that is holy, do some background checks on your candidates and the issues and policies they tout.
Let’s look specifically at Bernie Sanders:
First: "Single payer" was looked at in Bernie's home state of Vermont. It failed in December 2014. So when people tell you it's going to work this time, they don't know the facts.
Second: Bernie proposes $1 trillion in infrastructure spending. We just did this with the "Stimulus" and the results were for every job created, the taxpayers spent $278,000. That’s EACH Job!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/obamas-economists-stimulus-has-cost-278000-per-job/article/576014
Be sure when you google that to pay attention to things $10,000 for each sign that says "Brought to you by the American Re-vestment act". I would strongly suggest "100 Stimulus Projects that Give Tax Payers the Blues"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/GOP_simulus_index.pdf
Third: Let’s look to the estimated costs of Bernie's Single payer program. WSJ says $15 trillion, left wing groups say $5 trillion. Our experience with government spending says go for the higher number.
Source: http://www.wsj.com/articles/price-tag-of-bernie-sanders-proposals-18-trillion-1442271511
Forth: look to France if you want to see how well high taxes on millionaires and billionaires work. France decided to go this route on 12/31/13. What followed was a mass exodus of tax revenue. It was cancelled by the SAME FRENCH GOVERNMENT on 1/31/14.
http://news.yahoo.com/france-drops-super-tax-millionaires-072915575--finance.html
Fifth: Bernie says everyone should have a job and it should come with mandated security, in other words, stronger labor laws geared toward the employee. France tried that too. Once you hire someone, you should just adopt them because you pretty much are stuck with them. It's one of the reasons for high unemployment right now in France (10.6%).
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/06/news/economy/france-unemployment/
Sixth: "My single payer program will save every American $5,000 a year on medical coverage". - Bernie Sanders.
"My program will save every household in America $2,500 a year beginning in its first year." - Barack Obama, June 2008.
When you point out to Obamabots that insurance hasn't gone down but up, the response is "But, but, but rates have always gone up!" Clearly that’s not what was promised. For those who now have high deductible programs which require thousands in out of pocket expenses, you understand that Obamacare is a failure.
I for one have no desire to see these costs go even higher. It's bad for America and bad for the middle class and exactly the OPPOSITE of what we were promised.
Seven: Keep one last thing in mind. How effective do you think Bernie will actually be? He can't do a thing about taxation; that's the job of Congress. Do you really think he is going to go in front of the millionaires in Congress people and say "I'm raising taxes not only on you, but also on the billionaires who put you here”? Does anyone think any such bill is going to see the light of day let alone pass? Now I am sure that Sander’s people will say, “Next we elect people like Bernie into Congress”. That too is a pipe dream. The same thing was said about Obama, and look to 2010 and 2014 if you want to see the results and low turnout.
Eight: Read the fine print of Bernie's proposal to give "Free" college tuition. It requires the States to pick up 33% of the cost.
Speaking for my own state, I can tell you they are laying off current teachers. We have larger classrooms and school budgets are being slashed. In other areas, we have cuts to Police and Fire via local aid. There is NO WAY you're going to get a tax increase in my state to cover this scheme.
Don't take my word or the word of anyone else - DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.
Posted Feb 16, 2016, 2:18 PM UTC