Codger on Politics

Saturday, February 13, 2016

What you get with sanders

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/02/11/glenn-reynolds-socialism-bernie-sanders-young-millennial-voters-column/80169668/

"Want real socialism? Look at Venezuela, an oil-exporting nation that is now dead broke even as the family of its socialist dictator, Hugo Chavez, reportedly somehow inherited billions at his death in 2013. Redistribution of wealth often seems to involve redistributing most of it to the people on top of the socialist pyramid.

But there's some good news, according to Silver: Even though young Americans say they like socialism, they also say that they don't like redistribution of wealth. Writes Silver: "It's possible that Sanders will trigger a shift toward more support for economic redistribution in the future, but there hasn't been one yet." The percentage of young Americans who support redistributing wealth is almost the same as it was in 1996."

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