Posted on 05/02/2015 3:40:03 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer
When running for office in 2012, President Obama frequently inveighed against "millionaires and billionaires" who don't pay their fair share of taxes.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a self-described socialist arguably to the left of Obama who plans to run for president in 2016, wants to narrow his focus to just billionaires.
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Bernie is doing good to take on his first whizz in the morning.
Bernie will attack the 1 percenters who didn’t contribute to his last election campaign. You know, the honest ones. This isn’t a great mystery.
Bernie is a straw candidate. He’s there to take votes away from a potential Elizabeth Warren run.
I had just started to compile a list. It’s only in rough form now but let me help you out, Bernie.
Democrats’ billionaires
Michael Bloomberg
Eli Broad
Warren Buffett
Fred Eychaner
Larry Ellison? - Oracle
Charles Ergen
Judy Faulker - EPIC Systems
Bill Gates - Microsoft
Jeffrey Katzenberg
George Kaiser
Leonard Lauder
Larry Page - Google
Penny Pritzker
Haim Saban
George Soros
Steven Spielberg
Tom Steyer
John Stryker
Dirk Ziff
Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
Singer, Warren Stephens, David Bonderman, Kenneth Griffin, Sean Parker, Marc Benioff, B. Wayne Hughes and Richard DeVos
The plan/theory I read which is part of Clive-Piven is that 0bummer and his commie posse actually want republicans to win this election so they can basically run community organizing in background and then after 4 years they can say...see things are bad when you do it capitalism way then put them back in power. In my book we have to really fix things...one more term with a non-cruz candidate and the republic is toast.
At all turns 0bummer has done no favors for any dem/commie candidates...I think this is true...either that or after this summer long chaos from his commie mayors and riots therein...maybe he won’t step down but instead martial law...he’s taking over policing and I don’t see anyone stopping him.
Bernie,YOU and YOUR COMRADES in CONgre$$, POS tax & spend socialists DID BUILD this…
Socialism Is Legal Plunder.
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
/Bastiat - “The Law”
6. But the grand nostrum will be a public debt…
8. (4) A great debt will require great taxes; great taxes, many taxgatherers and other officers; and all officers are auxiliaries of power.
10. “Divide and govern”…
11. As soon as sufficient progress in the intended change shall have been made, and the public mind duly prepared according to the rules already laid down, it will be proper to venture on another and a bolder step toward a removal of the constitutional landmarks.
/Freneau - “Rules…”
All of your assets should be seized and your architecture of BIG GOVERNMENT SOCIALISM DISMANTLED. Internal enemies ALERT!
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Economic slavemasters ALERT!
List/tagline BUMP! Thank Paine.
(Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
Ha,ha what a joke. Bernie The Red will take on George Soros and all those Hollyweird billionaires as soon as he’s sworn in. Excuse me...I’m having a laughing fit.
Nice list. Been wondering how many myself. I just have to roll my eyes when some ignorant Dems says something about the Koch brothers.
Bernie the Bolshevik is good for a laugh!
I wrote something similar a while back, although without reference to Cloward Piven. The next president will likely go through a big recession. Why not set up the GOP to take the blame, while the MSM blasts them and Dems sabotage them in the background?
“...he’s taking over policing...”
Waiting for when the “National Security Force” will be instituted and what color shirts they will be wearing.
IMHO
“...and Dems sabotage them in the background...”
They’re always doing that.
The fifth column is now everywhere comrade.
IMHO
“Bernie the Bolshevik is always good for a laugh.”
Wait until the scu*bags vote him into office.
It will not be a laughing matter then.
IMHO
Right wing billionaires. He couldn’t care less about the liberal ones.
Saw that with penalties and interest it was over $13B. Lots of Luck getting George to pay up.
Oddly enough, Sanders has said two things that are intelligently populist, if he meant them. But they don’t go far enough.
1) To severely reign in the NSA. Oddly enough, this *isn’t* radical enough. The US Intelligence Community is 17 different agencies, all of which need massive reform and a return to constitutionality, i.e. “The bad guys are *them*, not *us*. So pay attention to *them*, not *us*.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community
2) To punish billionaires that currently do not pay US taxes. Oddly enough, once they start paying *normal* taxes, in that this should be “fair”, not “punitive”, the tax structure for them needs to be changed, so that they are encouraged to invest in America, its infrastructure, businesses, entrepreneurship, workers, and research and development.
Right now, giant sectors in investment are dangerously like gambling, and are carried out by “too big to fail” financial institutions and billionaire gamblers, figuring that they will win vast sums of money, but their losses will be covered by government, that is, the taxpayers. So this crap has to end.
In any event, Sanders is a socialist wiener who will never get anywhere, but what he is saying should appeal to, and be enlarged upon, by conservatives.
Definitely *not* the same endings, but similar means.
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