“JPMorgan report concluded: “A real-life proof of concept for a successful democratic socialist society, like the Lost City of Atlantis, has yet to be found.” Write that one down.
Its easy to turn the US in to Scandinavia - just import more muslims.
good post
Democratic socialism
National socialism
What’s the difference?
Make no mistake about it, Bernie Sanders is an out and out communist.
From the Nat’l Review:
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Bernie Sanders’s Soviet Honeymoon
By John Fund
June 24, 2015 1:31 PM
What is it about worn-out socialist “worker paradises” like the old Soviet Union and Cuba that bring out the romantic in American radical politicians?
After Vermont senator Bernie Sanders announced his run for president, Britain’s Guardian newspaper pawed through old archives in his home town of Burlington, Vermont where he served as mayor in the 1980s. They discovered that Sanders really did practice the socialist solidarity he preached about rhetorically.
During Bernie’s mayoral tenure, Burlington formed an alliance with the Soviet city of Yaroslavl, 160 miles northeast of Moscow. When in 1988 he married his wife, Jane, the mayor decided it would be a perfect place for his honeymoon. In a tape of his interview with Yaroslavl’s mayor, Alexander Riabkov, Sanders acknowledges that housing and health care appear to be “significantly better” in the U.S. than in the socialist paradise. “However,” he added, “the cost of both services is much, much, higher in the United States.”
Sanders made further globe-trotting expeditions to socialist countries. He visited Cuba, scoring a meeting with Havana’s mayor. In 1985 he attended the celebrations marking the sixth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. “In a letter addressed to the people of Nicaragua, penned in conjunction with that trip, Sanders denounced the activities of the Reagan administration, which he said was under the influence of large corporations,” the Guardian notes. “In the long run, I am certain that you will win,” Sanders wrote, “and that your heroic revolution against the Somoza dictatorship will be maintained and strengthened.” (The Sandinistas were ousted by Nicaragua’s voters in 1990).
Burny dont give a flyin fig about nothin but Burny!
2020 TAXES VS SANDERS TAX PROPOSED RATES
But that’s with federal income taxes at only 37% (plus Medicare tax surcharge that brings it to 40%). That’s with capital gains tax only at 20% (plus Obamacare surcharge that brings it to 23.8%). Add in FICA (Social Security taxes) of 12.4% for anyone self- employed, on the first $137,700 you make.
Do you want to hear what Bernie proposes? Get ready to get violently ill. More importantly, get ready to move to another country.
Bernie wants your income tax rate to jump from 40% to 69.2%. And Bernie wants to remove the cap on FICA taxes. Now instead of paying about 16% combined taxes for Social Security and Medicare up to $137,700, under Bernie you’ll pay it on every dollar you earn- to infinity.
So why didn’t Bernie honeymoon in Norway? Hmmmmm?
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts for ever
Everybody wants to rule the world.
Norway restricts immigration to those earning $47,000 or more annually.
Bernie’s goal: “Make America Like Venezuela”
The only thing we need to do that’s Scandinavian happens to involve those bikini teams. That and maybe lingonberries?
Oh Scandinavia would be mild. Note tagline.
Being president authorizes you to reinvent or end the current system of representative republicanism? I thought they were sworn to uphold the Constitution.
I worked in Norway for years. Its whole economy was based on capitalism. The people accepted high taxes to pay for their social welfare system. It was their choice and it works. Taxes are high.
However capitalism underlies all of this. This is not the model Bernie wants. His model is the failed Soviet Union. Bernie is just an old communist beyond his expiration date.
He still believes Marx was right.