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Albertoo

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116. That's just slogans. Fact is Sanders economic plan doesn't add up.

Fri May 20, 2016, 12:39 AM

May 2016

But bear with me: I am not saying it is impossible to reform more. I think it should be possible to reduce the income gap to finance universal health care, notably by repealing the GW tax cuts and putting pressure on tax havens. Again, I advocate gradual reformism.

But that's something different from two other things:
1- that Sanders is either not honest or not serious. What he promises cannot be met only with the increased revenues he mentions. S either he and his team can't count, or they're hiding some of the pain they would have to inflict to finance the promises and are not honest enough to live up to that
2- that beyond sound calculation, Sanders has a history of anticapitalist bent (see his cosying up with the Sandinista dreamers) which is not reassuring given that anticapitalism has a 100% track record of failing.

¡Social reformism, Siempre!
¡La revolucion, No!

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The difference between reformists and iseologues is the principle of reality Albertoo May 2016 #114

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That's just slogans. Fact is Sanders economic plan doesn't add up. Albertoo May 2016 #116

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