Bernie at Huffpo
Of his 12 points I accept only some.
I don't accept 2, 3, 6, or 10.
2. The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change and make certain that this planet is habitable for our children and grandchildren.
This is a completely unnecessary cost to everyone alive today.
3. . . . [W]e need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives.
This is economic stupidity.
6. Women workers today earn 78 percent of what their male counterparts make. We need pay equity in our country -- equal pay for equal work.
Women in fact make what they should, given the jobs they pick, their level of reliability, their costs and benefits to employers, and the like.
10. . . . We need to establish a Medicare-for-all, single-payer system.
It is stupid to create a government monopoly in health insurance with a complete stranglehold on the entire health care industry.
Nor do I accept his plan to establish more federal government control of American education and to undermine the independence and economic viability of private colleges and universities as part and parcel of his plan to make education affordable.
But nobody is as good as he is on support for Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and improving their benefits and coverage.
And nobody is a good as he is on properly placing the burden of taxation to pay for government in America at all levels.
And though it appears he has little to say about foreign affairs what he does say seems to indicate a much less interventionist outlook than is almost uniformly present among national political leaders of both our major parties, and that is also all to the good.
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