Bernie Sanders' plan to privatize his brand of democratic socialism

[TexasTowelie]

By Charles Lane, Washington Post


In an advanced industrial democracy like the United States, who should bear primary responsibility for ensuring an adequate social-safety net and a reasonable level of economic equality?

Strangely enough, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the once and possibly future presidential candidate, thinks that’s a job for corporate America. Who would have thought the first step on the road to democratic socialism would be to privatize it?

Or so one concludes from reviewing Sanders’s proposal to tax large employers (500 or more employees) $1 for every dollar their workers and their family members get in means-tested federal benefits such as food stamps or Medicaid.

He says the plan would prevent giant corporations run by plutocrats such as Amazon’s Jeffrey P. Bezos (owner of The Post) from passing the tab for their underpaid employees’ well-being to the government. “Corporate welfare,” Sanders calls it.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article218581640.html

Please note that the author has admitted his conflict of interest within the editorial; however, valid points were made in the editorial that are worthy of discussion.

[chillfactor]

1. Not a Brenie supporter.....

never have been never will be...he helped Hilary lose in the 2016 election and I will never forgive him for that loss.

[Thekaspervote]

3. Agree! He worries me... if he loves this country as much as he says he does he will not run in 2020

[Midnight Writer]

2. Oh boy! Another proposal! So, is there a bill? In writing? With sponsors? A coalition? Anything?

[RandySF]

4. I don't want to hear about Bernie for the next month and a half

Unless he’s out campaigning for Democrats.

[AZ8theist]

5. Name ONE piece of legislation Sanders has introduced that is now law....

[AZ8theist]

6. don't get me wrong, .....but

I like Bernie. I like Progressive Socialism.

But he needs to STAY OUT of the election of 2020.

Or he will hand a second term to the fucking fascist Russian stooge puppet.

WE CAN'T HAVE THAT. CIVIL WAR WILL RESULT.

[lagomorph777]

7. Um...that's not privatization. That's making employers pay a living wage, or pay up.

And whether you like Bernie or not, it seems reasonable to make employers shoulder the burden they've been putting on us.