NYMag: Bernie Sanders's BEZOS Bill Would Hurt the Working Class, Not the Rich

[JHan]

8. Now Sanders' policy adviser has decided to smear the CBPP

Remnants of 2016.

Link to tweet

Anyone who dares, just dares to point out ANY policy flaw of Sanders, is slandered as a corporate shill... as usual ....

And I shouldn't be wary of populists?

The CBPP has done stellar work for decades analyzing the impact of policies on the poor and middle class. They raise valid concerns and are immediately tarnished by a Sanders aide as being compromised.

Gunnels doesn't actually address any of those valid concerns, in one of the tweet replies, he even contradicts himself:

"It’s absurd to think this bill will spur CEOs to lobby for cuts to the social safety net. News flash: CEOs have been lobbying to privatize or cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and virtually every other program benefiting the working class since the 1930s." -

Not all corporations are the Koch Brothers. Fact is, Corporations have been happy to have Government take up the slack.

Gunnels logic: it's absurd to think CEO's will lobby cuts to the social safety net, but on the other hand, they've been lobbying for cuts to the safety net since the 1930's. ------Impressive how he manages to make CBPP's point without realizing it.

In another tweet reply he argues that Sanders' history of sponsoring and co-sponsoring progressive bills are evidence that we should ignore CBPP's concerns and not approach this as if we were in a "policy vacuum" ( whatever this means). The problem here is, Sanders has no bona fides since these bills never passed Warren

Gunnel then misconstrues valid points about the impact of the bill on workers who depend on public assistance as some kind of stigmatization of poor people. Then he taps into populist outrage by declaring how bad all these billionaires are and we really oughta show them when grievance should never be the impetus of legislation. Pointing fingers at the chosen enemies of the Populist should never be the point of legislation. Legislation is implemented to improve conditions, not blame individuals.

Of course, this bill won't be passed. Thoughtful legislators will raise the same concerns the CBPP did, and be slandered for doing so. We'll then hear for two years how Sanders didn't get his bill passed because of "the establishment".

2016 redux.