Posted by: be-aware February 7, 2020
नेपाली समुदायको भारी समर्थन Iowa caucus मा Bernie Sanders लाई - PHOTOS
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Salam Krishne you wrote valid points so I am responding to you separately.


You wrote:
I don't think white america is ready to elect a socialist president yet.
You are saying media is biased against Bernie, and asking people to look at the crowd, rally etc to see how he is the most electable candidate that can defeat Trump . That is what you see in a cadre-based party/movement, group of people who are convinced by a radical agenda. I remenber things back in Nepal. In many occasions all communist supporters, who many times would be the only voters, would be in rally, whereas NC would not have a big crowd despite a good turnout in ballot as they are mass-based party.


When you compare Bernie's movement with radical agenda such as the communist movement you comparing apples to oranges. The communist movement is a violent movement, levied by using uneducated villagers killing them, torturing them into submission, using scare tactics and death, dismemberment, rape.

Bernie's movement is peaceful. It is not about socialism where government claims control on every part of citizen's life. Bernie is talking about a livable planet, healthcare as a right, a humane immigration system, a living wage for all - these are not radical ideas.

The factions that are against Bernie will have you believing that these are socialistic demands which is not possible but they are just afraid of Bernie's popularity. That is why they are trying everything they can to discredit Bernie and what he is fighting for.

The radicals on the other hand are actually the people who would let the world burn and the sick people die without care, all for the money in their banks. Universal healthcare and tuition-free college aren't radical. They already exist in other nations.

You think that the crowd at rally is not significant but look at his donor base and his grass root movement. He has more individual donations than Donald Trump or any other candidates. That speaks volumes of his popularity which is constantly being under reported by the media as they do not want him to build momentum.

Just think of all the problems that could have been solved if the billions spent on elections had been put into infrastructure or education, etc. These billions are spent buying congress instead of raising salaries of workers or adding jobs.

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You wrote:
In couple places you wrote Trump and other candidates from Democractic party are going to work for billionaires, rich "class" people, and that Bernie is the only candidate who will work for common people (you probably meant a different or opposite class than rich "class"). I believe a lot of people know that very few uneducated white people are going to vote for him despite the fact they belong to such "class". You know why. The more radical his agenda is, the less chance of getting elected.


Again his agenda is not radical and lots of people are realizing that and supporting him. See what I wrote above.





You wrote:
BTW, people who do not pay a lot a tax may like the idea of making tax more progressive, but how much progressive you want to make it? To quote some recent numbers: The top 1% paid 37.3% of Federal Income Tax, the most important revenue source for federal government, whereas bottom 90%'s combined share was just 30.5%.


This is a play of words currently used to distort reality. This does not report the payroll taxes which accounts for the biggest disparity of the taxing structure which the rich are using to escape or minimize their taxes.

This is the payroll taxes — which fall much more heavily on working people, since they’re largely levied only on the first $130,000 or so of earned income.

This means the rich pay a far lower payroll tax rate than regular people. A nurse making a salary of $50,000 per year pays (counting both the employee and employer side) 12.4 percent in OASDI taxes (for Social Security and disability insurance). But a sitcom star making a thousand times that, or $50 million a year, will pay the 12.4 percent only on the initial $130,000 of their salary, working out to a total OASDI tax rate of just 0.03 percent on their $50 million. And because OASDI taxes are only levied on earned income — meaning, money you make from a job — a billionaire investor with a $50 million annual income from dividends and capital gains will pay exactly zero percent in OASDI taxes.

Then there’s the fact that it’s not just the federal government that taxes Americans. There are also many, many state and local taxes: State income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and more. Some of these, such as sales taxes, are actually regressive — i.e., the less money you make, the higher tax rate you have to pay.

Bernie Sanders is not campaigning against a republican or a democrat, but rather a system, embraced by both parties that has left behind the very people they were meant to represent.

Here's something to think about the candidate that the establishment is supporting.


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