If you add up the money we ALREADY pay in taxes, + medical insurance, + the social costs of 64% of our bankruptcies (which are due to medical debt) you find we ALREADY spend the amount of money proposed and more. There are credible economic studies that demonstrate this clearly. Democratic socialism works quite well in the happiest, longest living, healthiest and most successful societies on the planet. All of them have full & open free markets and entrepreneurial encouragement and opportunity. The democratic socialism advanced by Bernie and Elizabeth Warren does not mean government ownership of private enterprise. At all. Germany, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands… And raising the issue of “Venezuela” is a typical right wing talking point that is not relevant. It’s no more relevant than saying that because my Hyundai broke down, all Hyundai’s are junk. Further, the things that are of interest to Bernie Sanders are NOT radical or “red” at all. It is not radical to provide vocational and college training to people who cannot afford private schools. It is not radical to have a living minimum-wage. It is not radical to question why, of every dollar profit made, essentially 95% of that money goes to the wealthiest 1% of the country. Income disparity is obscene in the United States. Providing healthcare In the same way we provide public highways and bridges is something that is standard in every first world country on the planet. Our medical insurance system is absurd. $.30-$.40 of every dollar spent in the medical area is spent on non-medical profit & costs charged by Insurance companies —that do absolutely nothing to provide healthcare. 99% of schools are already run by the government we just don’t want the Christians running them. Women should make the decisions 100% about their own bodies. These are not radical ideas.
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