Bernie Sanders: "A 90% Tax Rate isn't too high."

I have no idea why I'm entering this fray but here goes:

Bernie Sanders or Donald Trump will not become president. Stop the fearmongering.

Bernie Sanders is not the second coming of Lenin. He's basically a Helmut Kohl-style social democrat. There's quite a bit of difference between the two.

If either become president, they're not going to destroy America. They can't just snap their fingers and raise tax rates to x% or build walls here and there. America is successful because of a great system, not because of great politicians.

The difference between southern Europe (poor economies) and northern Europe (doing better) seems to have more to do with labor regulations and the Euro rather than high tax burdens. The north actually seems to have slightly higher tax burdens, yet also stronger growth.

All that being said, 90% is probably too high a marginal rate. When Johnson (not Kennedy, the only thing Kennedy could get through was his junk into other women) put through the tax cut lowering rates from 90 to 70 in 1964, the economy roared forward (after a period of stagnation) at China-level growth (8 percent or so) for quite a few years. The poverty level dropped from 25% to about 15%, which is where it is now.

My guess is that most of us on this board are reasonably prosperous and are not struggling to put food on the table. Have your lives been affected by who the president is? I seriously doubt mine has. Certainly you want a president who will do the best job, but it's quite unlikely that any one president will ruin anyone's life. Most of that is up to you. Again, this country works because of the system, not the president.

Bernie Sanders is a communist/socialist. Probably a communist first. Do your homework. American's are fed up with all the lying and cheating involved with all these "politically correct" politicians from both sides. Thus, the popularity of a Donald Trump who actually can win this thing, particularly with Hillary's brazen disastrous woes. She would be one pathetic vermin representative of a US President. Holy help me please.

Bernie Sanders is a communist/socialist. Probably a communist first. Do your homework. American's are fed up with all the lying and cheating involved with all these "politically correct" politicians from both sides. Thus, the popularity of a Donald Trump who actually can win this thing, particularly with Hillary's brazen disastrous woes. She would be one pathetic vermin representative of a US President. Holy help me please.

Those lazy people barely exist in the form of meaningful statistics.

yessirrr wrote:

Bernie Sanders is a communist/socialist. Probably a communist first. Do your homework. American's are fed up with all the lying and cheating involved with all these "politically correct" politicians from both sides. Thus, the popularity of a Donald Trump who actually can win this thing, particularly with Hillary's brazen disastrous woes. She would be one pathetic vermin representative of a US President. Holy help me please.

As was posted just before yours - The POTUS doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of difference. Nobody on these boards has had their own lives so altered by Obama or by Bush before him (unless you served in Iraq).

Life goes on. America goes on because the system works - albeit frustratingly much of the time.

Now go get a life.

I know a certain people here in America who paid100% tax rate and they did it for nearly three hundred years.

800 dude wrote:

The question is what Trump's bankruptcies and Detroit's say about their respective management competency. Trump is an investor with a diverse portfolio. Someone in his position SHOULD have some companies that declare bankruptcy, or else they're being too conservative.

Possibly, but how many bankruptcies has Warren Buffet had? (As far as I can tell, the answer is zero)

Trump has turned bankruptcy into an art form:

What's more, he's really terrible as a a businessman. If he just took his inheritance and put it in a conservative S&P 500 index fund, he'd be twice as rich as he is today.

If he was even a decent businessman, he'd at least keep pace with the S&P.

The quickest way to lose your money is to invest it with Donald Trump.

In fact, my personal net worth has outperformed Trump several times over.

Awa wrote:

I know a certain people here in America who paid100% tax rate and they did it for nearly three hundred years.

Wow, I didn't know that people even lived that long!

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Agreed

Looking at the quality of women in the country's in your top 5, I would have to agree :)

OLD SMTC SOB wrote:

Looking at the quality of women in the country's in your top 5, I would have to agree :)

Hey moron,

1. learn to quote the post you're replying to so we know what it is. Instead you just wrote four consecutive unrelated posts.

2. learn to use apostrophes

3. learn to keep your creepy opinions about quality of women of entire diverse countries to yourself :)

Nah, I don't think so. I find the endless reposting of previous posts annoying, never could spell and you obviously aren't smart enough to recognize sarcasm when you see it. Soooooooooooo...............have a nice day :)