**** Elections thread *****

[boost]

i was wrong, bernie does speak to the generation of millennials. to their utter inability to understand the principles behind that which comes out of their mouths

You could change the tweet to be about a bumper sticker being ripped off that featured any candidate and the point you're trying to make works essentially as well.

[wufwugy]

You could change the tweet to be about a bumper sticker being ripped off that featured any candidate and the point you're trying to make works essentially as well.

it certainly would. what makes this one extra special is there is one man in the race who makes his name off of the desire to greatly increase the amount of other peoples' stuff that is taken.

[CoccoBill]

it certainly would. what makes this one extra special is there is one man in the race who makes his name off of the desire to greatly increase the amount of other peoples' stuff that is taken.

Has he though? He's been vocal about increasing tax on the rich, but on the other hand wants to help the poor and revive the middle class. Where has he said that he wants to increase the overall collected taxes?

[wufwugy]

Has he though? He's been vocal about increasing tax on the rich, but on the other hand wants to help the poor and revive the middle class. Where has he said that he wants to increase the overall collected taxes?

nobody says they want to raise middle class taxes, at least not as explicitly as they do about the rich or corporations. regardless, it doesn't matter what he says about taxes, it matters what he says about policy, because that necessarily informs his implicit position on taxes. for example, when he wants universal college, he is implicitly endorsing a large increase in taxes on the non-rich because that's the only way to pay for it.