Bernie’s Problem Isn’t His Three Houses, It’s His Two Standards

National Review ^ | February 24, 2020 | Jim Geraghty

[karpov]

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If you heard just about any Bernie Sanders speech from 2016, you heard his denouncing millionaires and billionaires and big banks — or, if you prefer to imitate him, it was “thah millionayuhs and thah billionayuhs and thah big banks.”

From his opening announcement speech, Sanders made it clear that the growing number of millionaires in the United States was “something profoundly wrong” as long as poverty persisted: “There is something profoundly wrong when, in recent years, we have seen a proliferation of millionaires and billionaires at the same time as millions of Americans work longer hours for lower wages and we have the highest rate of childhood poverty of any major country on earth.”

Bernie Sanders did not say that some millionaires and billionaires and big banks were okay or good people. He didn’t acknowledge that some millionaires and billionaires accumulated their wealth in fair ways, or that they way they built their fortune helped societies. Sanders clearly believed that millionaires and billionaires didn’t pay a “fair” share of taxes, even though almost all of them paid what they were legally obligated to pay under the law. There was no room for moral nuance in the Sanders message of 2016. The Guardian summarized it simply: “Bernie Sanders is waging war on millionaires and billionaires, one gymnasium at a time.”

Sanders didn’t single out one group of multimillionaires, such as hedge fund managers, or corporate chief executives, or Hollywood stars or professional athletes. If Sanders ever acknowledged that some millionaires and billionaires were good people, who supported many great charities, I missed it. (In 1981, the newly-elected Mayor Sanders told the local United Way fundraiser that “I don’t believe in charities.”)

[karpov]

While owning 3 homes, Sanders advocates a 2% annual "Empty Homes tax" because according to him, people who own more than one home are a cause of homelessness.

[samtheman]

It seems like conservative and near-conservative publications and websites all up and down the political spectrum are jumping on the DNC anti-bernie bandwagon.

Don’t they see they are being played?

[GOPJ]

Interesting timing on Sander’s next book...guess it’s ‘vote first’ then find out what’s in the vote...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-sanderss-memoir-to-hit-bookshelves-nov-15-1476458710

from link:

A week after Election Day, there will be a second popular vote. Bernie Sanders’s admirers will have an opportunity to show whether their affection for the senator from Vermont was a flirtation or something more serious.

On Nov. 15, Sen. Sanders’s memoir, “Our Revolution,” will hit bookstores...

[ronnie raygun]

Another hypocritical scumbag who happened to be a socialist not much more worse than the typical hypocritical rat politican.

[Rummyfan]

I really don’t know
If there’s any value to be gained in refuting Sanders’ crackpot ravings.This nut has never had a real job in his entire life, never created a job or any wealth. In that regard he is just like his idol Marx.

[Rummyfan]

And what’s wrong with millionaires and billionaires? Doesn’t everyone want to be one?!

[minnesota_bound]

Comrade kaprugina delivers a scolding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq__Z-Z_Ofs