This is really not good news at all – Bernie Sanders and his supporters have managed to commit the Democratic policy platform for the coming elections to the appalling idea of a national, Federal, $15 an hour minimum wage. Yes, I know, the general consensus these days is that raising the minimum wage is a […]
Puerto Rico is “feeling the Bern” but it looks like nobody told the Vermont senator. Bernie Sanders visited the Island recently touting his progressive policies—the same ones that led to Puerto Rico’s current debt crisis. Sanders claims he “understands that Puerto Rico’s unsustainable debt has everything to do with the policies of austerity and the greed of […]
Over here in Europe, we’ve had more in-your-face experience with socialism than the U.S. so it might be the case that we pay more attention to the gradations of leftist political thought. Socialism is a political (or economic, your choice) system in opposition to capitalism. The difference is who owns the productive assets. Under capitalism it is the […]
Hillary Clinton just dipped her toe a little bit further into the waters of single-payer health care, prodded by her competitor for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders. Last week, she called for allowing more people to join Medicare — the government-run healthcare program for seniors — by allowing those “55 or 50 and up” […]
Thanks to 24-hour coverage of the current presidential contest, we can’t avoid becoming acquainted with each candidate’s plans and platforms. Of course, by this point it’s no secret that Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders would like to raise taxes exponentially. Analyst and author Rick J. Newman calls Sanders’ plan “so utopian as to be hopeless,” noting […]