Why Bernie Sanders would be an exccellent president [ZOT! Feel the bern]

Bernie Sanders offers a real solution that the current condidates wont have. Bernie Sanders would first of all return tax levels to the way they were in the 1950s, tax the rich 90% and use the massive massive massive surplus from that tax to create jobs for the unemployed. One trillion should be paid for rebuilding infrastructure and bridges and creating jobs. Another trillion will be used to create new healthcare opertunety for workers to earn doctors degrees and to heal the sick and poor. Bernie sanders will also create government funded industries and factories that will create paying jobs that are clean and dont pollute will never go overseas and that will pay big bucks to those who work there. Redistributing wealth would jumpstart the economy by returning it to the consumers and to the government sector instead of having it horded by rich fat cats that screw up all the stuff. Bernie Sanders will also create free university and college meaning that all Americans will be able to learn a skill and learn new things. This would also reduce unemployment and reduce the demand for labor needed to make an efficient government and efficient healthcare. Bernie will also raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour creating an explosion of wealth. Bernie Sanders will also restore America's prestige in the world and increase morale by dismantle the military and moving pentagon spending into welfare and social security. This will not only remove poverty it will make us liked again throughout the world which hates us for bombing children overseas. Speaking of Social security, Bernie Sanders will remove the 2k cap on SSI and triple or quadrople the amount of money paid from disability and SSI. Bernie Sanders will also undo the patriot act and restore civil liberties and human rights that were destroyed by the republicans and Bush and John Ashcroft. Bernie will make us a free country again. bernie Sanders will also allow the UN world court juristiction so we can set up a tribunal to prosecute veterans who killed civilians and prosecute bush and republican cronies that bombed Iraq as well as started wars and exploited children in sweatshops while polluting the world and spreading denying of global warming. Bernie Sanders will give amnesty to immigrants and open our borders so everyone in the world can come here and fill the demand for labor we will need for all the jobs that will be created by Bernie Sanders and the above mention paliseess. Bernie Sanders will make America great Again. For real he will. Bernie will be the greatest president since rosavelt and make America great. Three wiill be no more povrrty , no more wars, no more disease, no more politicians, no more wars, no racism or intolerance or sexism, no more hunger, global warming and climate change wont be a problem anymore and the world will be at peace.

Did the 50s really have 90 percent tax rate? I thought that was a good economic decade?

Back then the graduated income tax did indeed have a top rate over - over - 90%. There were a lot of tax brackets in the graduated table. The result of the very high tax bracket rates was full employment for accountants. And people who had very high earnings potential not only using loopholes but ultimately limiting the amount of work they did in a year. Movie stars like Ronald Reagan, and others even more highly paid, just didn’t bother to earn as much as they readily could have.
The high rates were carried over from the FDR/Truman Administrations. After JFK got elected he declared that “a rising tide lifts all boats” and proposed - and Congress enacted - a tax cut which reduced the top bracket to about 50%, still insane but not quite as delusional.
With the multitude of tax brackets, inflation had an inherent tendency to raise taxes - and in the Seventies we got inflation, in spades. Along with stagnation. Hence the term, “stagflation,” which was the phenomenon you got when tax rates biting too deeply into economic incentives not just at the top bracket but throughout the income spectrum. The more stagnation, the louder the cry for more tax revenues for more (magical) government spending by Democrats. The more taxation, the more stagnation, the spending the more inflation . . .
The problem flared up during the Ford Administration, and Ford came out with his own magic nostrum, the “Whip Inflation Now” button. And a call for more taxes. I myself, at that stage, thought that a tax hike might be necessary. Then Jack Kemp stepped up and stated that the emperor had no clothes. That the problem was not that tax rate was too low but that, because of inflation, it had become too high. It was a revelation, but not one which the GOP as a whole leaped to embrace. Kemp proposed an annual 10% cut in all income tax rates for three years, ultimately a 30% cut.
The Carter malAdministration led us into double digit inflation/interest rates, and double digit unemployment. I held my breath during the Reagan’s announcement of his candidacy in 1980, hoping for him to support the Kemp-Roth tax cut bill. Thanks be to God, he did not disappoint. GHW Bush called it “voodoo economics,” and after winning the WH as the third term of Reagan by promising, “read my lips, no new taxes” he then proceeded to raise taxes.

Bottom line: FDR did a lot good in WWII, the more I research it. But he had FUBARed the economy in the Thirties, by continuing and exacerbating Hoover’s errors, and making his own. Kemp-Roth economics (“Reaganomics”) was the crying need of America in the Thirties, and we had "Doctor New Deal” instead. That carried over into some bad economic policy during the war, and afterward. After the war, there was Korea to fight, and economic policy was mediocre to bad until JFK.

Or was that entire post /sarc? If you are a thinking human, I could believe that it was /sarc. However, you should have used the tag.

If not, just wow. Time to pull out the rant:

You swine. You vulgar little maggot. You worthless bag of filth. As they say in Texas, I’ll bet you couldn’t pour p!ss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.

You are a canker. A sore that won’t go away. I would rather kiss a lawyer than be seen with you. You’re a putrescent mass, a walking vomit. You are a spineless little worm deserving nothing but the profoundest contempt. You are a jerk, a cad, a weasel.

Your life is a monument to stupidity. You are a stench, a revulsion, a big suck on a sour lemon. You are a bleating foal, a curdled staggering mutant dwarf smeared richly with the effluvia and offal accompanying your alleged birth into this world. An insensate, blinking calf, meaningful to nobody, abandoned by the puke-drooling, giggling beasts who sired you and then killed themselves in recognition of what they had done. I will never get over the embarrassment of belonging to the same species as you. You are a monster, an ogre, a malformity. I barf at the very thought of you.

You have all the appeal of a paper cut. Lepers avoid you. You are vile, worthless, less than nothing. You are a weed, a fungus, the dregs of this earth. And did I mention you smell? Try to edit your responses of unnecessary material before attempting to impress us with your insight. The evidence that you are a nincompoop will still be available to readers, but they will be able to access it more rapidly.

You snail-skulled little rabbit. Would that a hawk pick you up, drive its beak into your brain, and upon finding it rancid set you loose to fly briefly before spattering the ocean rocks with the frothy pink shame of your ignoble blood.

May you choke on the queasy, convulsing nausea of your own trite, foolish beliefs. You are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. You are grimy, squalid, nasty and profane. You are foul and disgusting. You’re a fool, an ignoramus. Monkeys look down on you. Even sheep won’t have sex with you.

You are unreservedly pathetic, starved for attention, and lost in a land that reality forgot. And what meaning do you expect your delusionally self-important statements of unknowing, inexperienced opinion to have with us? What fantasy do you hold that you would believe that your tiny-fisted tantrums would have more weight than that of a leprous desert rat, spinning rabidly in a circle, waiting for the bite of the snake?

You are a waste of flesh. You have no rhythm. You are ridiculous and obnoxious. You are the moral equivalent of a leech. You are a living emptiness, a meaningless void. You are sour and senile. You are a disease, you puerile, one-handed, slack-jawed, drooling, meatslapper. On a good day you’re a half-wit. You remind me of drool.

You are deficient in all that lends character. You have the personality of wallpaper. You are dank and filthy. You are asinine and benighted. You are the source of all unpleasantness. You spread misery and sorrow wherever you go. You smarmy lagerlout git. You bloody woofter sod. Bugger off, pillock. You grotty wanking oik artless base-court apple-john. You clouted boggish foot-licking twit. You dankish clack-dish plonker. You gormless crook-pated tosser. You churlish boil-brained clotpole ponce. You cockered bum-bailey poofter. You craven dewberry pisshead cockup pratting naff. You gob-kissing gleeking flap-mouthed coxcomb. You dread-bolted fobbing beef-witted clapper-clawed flirt-gill.

You are a fiend and a coward, and you have bad breath. You are degenerate, noxious and depraved. I feel debased just for knowing you exist. I despise everything about you, and I wish you would go away.

I cannot believe how incredibly stupid you are. I mean rock-hard stupid. Dehydrated-rock-hard stupid. Stupid, so stupid it goes way beyond the stupid we know into a whole different dimension of stupid. You are trans-stupid stupid. Meta-stupid. Stupid collapsed on itself so far that even the neutrons have collapsed. Stupid gotten so dense that no intellect can escape. Singularity stupid. Blazing hot mid-day sun on Mercury stupid. You emit more stupid in one second than our entire galaxy emits in a year. Quasar stupid. Your writing has to be a troll. Nothing in our universe can really be this stupid. Perhaps this is some primordial fragment from the original big bang of stupid. Some pure essence of a stupid so uncontaminated by anything else as to be beyond the laws of physics that we know. I’m sorry. I can’t go on. This is an epiphany of stupid for me.

After this, you may not hear from me again for a while. I don’t have enough strength left to deride your ignorant questions and half baked comments about unimportant trivia, or any of the rest of this drivel. Duh. The only thing worse than your logic is your manners. I have snipped away most of what you wrote, because, well... it didn’t really say anything.

Your attempt at constructing a creative post was pitiful. I mean, really, stringing together a bunch of insults among a load of babbling was hardly effective... Maybe later in life, after you have learned to read, write, spell, and count, you will have more success. True, these are rudimentary skills that many of us “normal” people take for granted that everyone has an easy time of mastering. But we sometimes forget that there are “challenged” persons in this world who find these things more difficult. If I had known, that this was your case then I would have never read your post. It just wouldn’t have been “right”. Sort of like parking in a handicap space.

I wish you the best of luck in the emotional and social struggles that seem to be placing such a demand on you.

PS Nod to Firehat (who has passed) for creating this. Hope to see you in the next life, Sir!

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