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Gesture widely at "billionaires", "wall street", and "military spending" as wells of resources that will also get us free universal health care, free college, a
by allemagne 7y ago
Gesture widely at "billionaires", "wall street", and "military spending" as wells of resources that will also get us free universal health care, free college, a federal jobs guarantee, and free public housing (and more).
Sounds great, right? Does the math check out? Probably not, but it wouldn't matter anyway.
The president is not a king, and even with both houses of congress under democratic control (not even close to a given under a Sanders presidency), legislators in swing constituencies are not about to put their seat in jeopardy because of huge projects they never themselves ran under and committed to.
But Sanders loses nothing by making promises like this. It's all in hopes that his campaign gets traction before he loses Iowa/New Hampshire.