Bernie is a great guy, but his plans were totally unrealistic. The issue is that if he had run and won, he first of all wouldn't be able to get any of his plans through congress because they are so far left, and also, his plans probably didn't really add up.
He was basically saying that he was going to give everyone everything for free. Free college, free healthcare, pay off student loans... and trust me, that's sounds awesome. But his main way of getting that money, at least from what I heard, was to make rich people and big companies pay more tax. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I saw a news segment where someone actually added up the amount of money that would be received if you taxed the top 1% of people in this country 100% tax... if you took all their earnings for the whole year, we wouldn't even be able to pay for one year of medicare or something like that. There is no way that just taxing rich people is going to bring in enough to pay for what Bernie wanted.
Sadly, that's what Hillary started advocating for, too. I saw a speech where she said all the things she wants to do and then she said "And the wealthy are going to pay for it!". Maybe she was just doing this to get support from the Bernie people, but again, totally unrealistic. It's not enough money to get everything they want. Not even half of it probably.
I think he's a great guy, and perhaps I would have not minded him winning if he was running, but his ideas needed work.
I did a brief google search on that, and I couldn't really find what you are talking about. It looks like maybe there are some free classes offered to seniors and high school students, but I don't see anything about totally tuition free college for all people in Vermont. If you could point me in the direction you are coming from, I would appreciate it, as that would be pretty incredible if he truly made tuition free college in Vermont that went beyond community college.
The reality is though, that to do that for an entire state is pretty impressive. To do that for the whole country would be a tremendous task. I hope that one day, college education is free, but this country needs to be in a much better financial situation for that to happen I think.
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Bernie is a great guy, but his plans were totally unrealistic. The issue is that if he had run and won, he first of all wouldn't be able to get any of his plans through congress because they are so far left, and also, his plans probably didn't really add up.
He was basically saying that he was going to give everyone everything for free. Free college, free healthcare, pay off student loans... and trust me, that's sounds awesome. But his main way of getting that money, at least from what I heard, was to make rich people and big companies pay more tax. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
I saw a news segment where someone actually added up the amount of money that would be received if you taxed the top 1% of people in this country 100% tax... if you took all their earnings for the whole year, we wouldn't even be able to pay for one year of medicare or something like that. There is no way that just taxing rich people is going to bring in enough to pay for what Bernie wanted.
Sadly, that's what Hillary started advocating for, too. I saw a speech where she said all the things she wants to do and then she said "And the wealthy are going to pay for it!". Maybe she was just doing this to get support from the Bernie people, but again, totally unrealistic. It's not enough money to get everything they want. Not even half of it probably.
I think he's a great guy, and perhaps I would have not minded him winning if he was running, but his ideas needed work.
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not completely. he actually made the free college thing happen in vermont
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I did a brief google search on that, and I couldn't really find what you are talking about. It looks like maybe there are some free classes offered to seniors and high school students, but I don't see anything about totally tuition free college for all people in Vermont. If you could point me in the direction you are coming from, I would appreciate it, as that would be pretty incredible if he truly made tuition free college in Vermont that went beyond community college.
The reality is though, that to do that for an entire state is pretty impressive. To do that for the whole country would be a tremendous task. I hope that one day, college education is free, but this country needs to be in a much better financial situation for that to happen I think.
At least he hasn't shown to be a wild card like Hillary or Trump. The worst that would happen with Bernie is that nothing happens.