Bernie Sanders’ Road to Serfdom … And Corruption

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Bernie Sanders’ Road to Serfdom … And Corruption
I & I Editorial Board
February 25, 2020

Front-runner Bernie Sanders portrays himself as the antidote to corruption in Washington. But his own policies guarantee it will vastly increase.

“We will transform our political system by rejecting the influence of big corporate money,” Sanders said when he released his sweeping anti-corruption plan last fall. It includes such things as bans on lobbying, mandatory taxpayer financing of elections and a constitutional amendment restricting free speech.

But at the same time, Sanders’ spending spree would more than double the size of the federal government. He’s proposed free health care, free college, free daycare, guaranteed jobs, a “green new deal.”

When we added up the proposals he’d made, it came to almost $6 trillion in new spending each year. That was as of last August. Sanders has added to his spending plans since then.

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[goatprairie]

As the old saying goes, those who promise to rob Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.
As usual, a Dem candidate for president is promising something for nothing to people who have been told they're oppressed but who live better than 90% of the world's population.
Dem pols love to tell people that they're miserable, and it's somebody else's fault.
The average Dem is an ignoramus, so they'll readily believe whatever propaganda is launched at them.