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  • Bernie Sanders run for President PLEASE!!!!!!!!

  • @Budlynn Yes, please run Sanders! Obama has let you all down. Are you gonna just let him glide to a free nomination?

  • The "filibuster" is the funniest thing in the known universe.

  • I am voting for Sanders in 2012 if he is running or not...

  • wow; this is the guy that should be president of the US; for real

  • Eight months later and Bernie's been proven 100% right.

  • sanders.senate.gov

    sign his letter to Obama, I think this guy deserves support.

  • Bernie Sander is an Hero to American ..

  • This guy is awesome! Bernie Sanders is my hero. I wish we had more like him in Congress.

  • TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH ! CUTS FOR THE POOR ! THAT IS WHAT REAGAN WOULD DO !!!

  • @kn9ioutom Rich don't need cuts anymore.. they pay less then 1/4 of what average pay.. and respublscum still trying to cut

  • YES!!! seeing this happen is almost like a movie. he is rallying a revolution standing up there sticking to his guns. doing the right thing can be hard but we are takiin over the media and inspiring the american people!!! tell your friends, tell your neighbors, tell Randy Gonzales: WE'RE COMIN'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • His seat was Republican for 140 years. Now is Socialist. Vermont and Maine were the only states where Franklin Roosevelt never won in four elections.

  • Anyone else want Sanders in the White House?

  • President Obama successfully whips Dem caucus to endorse Bush tax policy. LMAO. So after all the class-warfare rhetoric & hating rich people thing, the Dems sided with George W Bush afterall. Hope & Change.....had enough yet?

  • Wait!! A Real Fillibuster?! With the standing up and talking for hours! I never thought I would actually see that. This is freaking awesome.

  • @PaleoNychus The Bernie-Buster is the first time in a very long time when a filibuster is used correctly.

  • Also apparently many people in the comments weren't educated enough to know what socialism means and what socialist party means in the modern world.

    American were taught to fear and reject socialism without ever being explained as to why? They simply fear and reject it. Yet every modern nation have a socialist party, and it is an important party because that is the party that kicked the US off the #1 seat in everything except military spending and oil consumption.

    Study up, times change.

  • @specificgravity Yes, because a bunch of people screaming that Obama is a socialist Commie Nazi, are adults. The adults stayed home because a vast majority of the shit we voted Democrats into office to do, didn't get done. Why? Because they let the Republicans in the Senate push them around (the House could get shit done).

    Sorry, but Republicans are children. When you block to support 9/11 First Responders because the rich haven't gotten their tax cuts yet - you're a child.

  • Bernie rocks so hard. I've never heard him say anything that didn't make me want to clap for him.

  • ATTABOY BERNIE!

    Symbolic? Sure! Impotent? NO!

    The most impotent symbolic gesture being made in Washinton DC these days is the President's disasterous outreach to Republicans.

  • Watched part 1 yesterday, it was AWESOME.

  • Yut it is the new Republican president hey Obama we welcome you and love you screw the dems thank you so much for our rich cuts. From a republican that loves ya my pocket fills you and your fellow republican Friends bless you! I think I am going to build a second movie theater in my guest home with the cuts.

  • HOW ABOUT A FLAT TAX! see if that was used then everybody would pay taxes not just those who work, thus motivating lazy welfare people to work! pay somebody not to work and don't be surprised if he won't work. what about the estate tax, I'm sick of it, why should a man work all his life give his money to his children, but then the government says sorry kids dad gotta pay for dying on us.

  • @ColoradoRanger Yes, nothing like forcing someone to pay taxes when they can't get a job. Good thing crime rates will go down, because then there would be no reason why people would resort to crime to make money. /sarcasm

  • @ColoradoRanger, the wealthy should pay a higher percentage than the middle class.

  • @ColoradoRanger First off, the idea of "lazy welfare people" is just a straw man created by Conservatives as a talking point against welfare. Secondly, the rich man you mentioned got rich off of other people, there isn't a way to earn millions of dollars by doing manual labor, making a product, etc. Therefore,morally it would be right to help others by donating some of his money back into the system. Unfortunately, most rich people hoard their money instead of helping others.

  • HOW ABOUT A FLAT TAX! see if that was used then everybody would pay taxes not just those who work, thus motivating lazy welfare people to work! pay somebody not to work and don't be surprised if he won't work.

  • Sanders for President.

  • The Republican Party would go easily along with the tax cut extension for the top 2% ,,only"

  • how about a flat tax.....smartest idea that is never considered. That's the only true egalitarian method

  • Sanders kinda reminds me of Frank Costanza

  • "That's pretty generous" LOL.  Hysterical.

  • they may take our lives! but they'll never take our freedooooooom!!!!11 blue face

  • Speaking of which, what the hell happened to Al Franken? The guy was a loud strong voice when he got in, now next to nothing. He criticized the tax bill, but not very loudly and ended up voting for it today. What the hell happened to that guy? I thought he was one of the good ones that was going to shake up the system. He's faded away and doesn't seem to relevant anymore.

  • @2:46 Other Democrats? Sanders isn't a Democrat, he's a socialist by his own words.

  • The best guy in Congress.

  • A true blue hero, God bless him.

  • F**k Democraps! Bernie is an (I)NDEPENDENT!... DON'T VOTE DEMON-CRAT! THEY DON'T SERVE US!

  • @zava55 Your idiocy won't sell here.

  • @shadowfaxx1 Really? So are you a brainwashed Democrat? Do you honestly believe in the two party system? Obama=Bush 2.0

    Democrats and Republicans are all owned by the same banks and special interest groups. 

  • doesnt real horror show mean good?

  • @boomboomskidskid

    In popular culture, it does. It's from A Clockwork Orange, as you probably know.  He probably meant to say "shit show".

  • In the 50's , the top 2% were paying 70% .... Why? Because they knew the war had to be paid for. Now it's " punishing the rich " to have them do so much as 40%. Where's the punishment? The middle class is being shrunken to almost nothingness, yet the punishment is on the rich? How about it merely being called what it is, PAYING YOUR FAIR SHARE.

  • But this is what Cenk is all about. He would love "fighting" Democrats, that actually get nothing accomplished, but fight fight fight.

    And Cenk does not blame who deserves the blame on this, CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS. He loves Feingold, but Feingold voted WITH the Republicans on this vote. Why hasn't he called Feingold out on that?

  • he may be saying "yes we can" but he's not saying "how" which makes it pretty useless.

  • Alan Grayson would have backed him up

  • fuk all the conservatives!! than suck my nutz...debate that shit youtube pundits

  • I know that I'm not loosing my mind, lately half of all comments are like traps to "feel" someone out

    it all got so serious, and even when I try to insult or piss someone off(I'm not a troll) that person is not taking it to the heart, nobody flys of the handle anymore or gets mad or retaliates hmmm... it's like half the people are zombies... that live of of POLITICAL IDEALOGY

    ...just ask them about Ana... and they won't even know who she is!!!

  • American hero and great statesmen! There's very few left in this country so I pay attention when one speaks the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth-what a lost concept. Like I said, Obama's pulling a Clinton so he doesn't end up like a Jimmy Carter.

  • congress people should filibuster more. fight for the people or go home

  • Can we PLEASE run Sanders against Obama in 2012?

  • poor guy fighting for us and no one to even offer him food!

  • Thanks Bernie Sanders!!!

  • I watched the whole 8.5hrs. It was epic. Bernie Sanders is a balls to the wall BEAST.

  • Bernie Sanders openly calls for Socialism in the US.

    TYT is a less upfront about this. They want Socialism, but won't openly admit it.

  • @LibertyDownUnder So what. Bernie Sanders views are the same as the majority of the US. We want tax cuts for over 250K to end and we want Single Payer health care. He is not a radical.

  • @MsZeitgeist85, I'm pretty sure that's not what the majority wants.

    Also, he is openly Socialist. If you want to visit Greece, Cuba, Portugal etc - you can see what Socialism looks like.

    It all starts with good intentions and harmless little programs to help the poor, and ends up enticing mass dependency on Government departments.

  • @LibertyDownUnder If you want to see the socialism that Bernie Sanders advocates you should visit Sweden, Norway.

  • @HyperAstartes,

    1. Those countries have a lot more natural resources relative the population than the US. They can afford their handouts without excessive loans, the US cannot.

    2. Their welfare state has invited an enormous amount of social problems, especially teen pregnancies.

    3. They've been slowly moving away from Socialism since the 1970s.

    If you google "Sweden and the Myth of Benevolent Socialism" you can read about this.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    1) They do not afford their handouts via simply their resource wealth. Wealth is taxed to provide for the population. If the rich are taxed and the middle class taxes cut in the US, the middle class will grow and the US will be able to better utilize its key resource currently, outside of military superiority or the artifacts of historical intimidation in W St: its tertiary education system. China is fast catching up because of the decline of the middle class.

  • @rajasmasala, without the resource wealth they would not have a tax base big enough for this...

    Per capita, their exports are about 8 times that of the US

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    US exports would go up if it had done the right things, for instance turn GE into a green tech, high-speed transport hub, put green tech further up the agenda, done obvious streamlining to TBTF. The only way a country in US's situation can keep itself functioning outside of continuing unethical practices and acting to preserve a bloated financial sector is to remain on the cutting edge of innovation, whatever the field.

  • @rajasmasala, well lets say I agree with that (I don't), it doesn't contradict what I said.

    Norway is much richer (per capita) and can afford these handouts.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    It does point out why this as a counterargument against US doesn't necessarily work. Exports remain a viable factor here, but in the US you also have the issue of internal demand potentially being massive relative to Sweden.

  • @rajasmasala, true, but still much lower GDP per capita than Norway. I think it's about half.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    The thing is, economic freedom is a good thing. But in the right places there needs to be appropriate government action. Basically what it boils down to for progressives is they see the same problems you do but looking at successful markets with economic freedom they also see a lot of infrastructure programs that are completely government funded, paying forward as it were, often through contracts but still. The essential issue to us is oversight and deincentivising corruption

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    2) "An enormous amount of social problems".

    Differences in Teenage Pregnancy Rates Among Five Developed Countries: The Roles of Sexual Activity and Contraceptive Use

    2001

    ": Adolescent childbearing is more common in the United States (22% of women reported having had a child before age 20) than in Great Britain (15%), Canada (11%), France (6%) and Sweden (4%)"

  • @rajasmasala, I stand corrected.

    The problem is with single mums (over 50% in Sweden), not teens.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    Well, damn, shows what an office environment suited for single mums can do to help them manage, don't it? Good for Sweden, I say.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Cuba is the fault of the US, 50 years of bloccade, assasanation attempts, and subversions is the reason for Cuba's condition. And what happened in Greece an Portugal had everything to do with US banks and nothing to do with Socialsim.

  • @MsZeitgeist85, not gonna debate each example with you.

    Every Socialist Government in Europe is falling apart and cracking under the load of it's bloated entitlements.

    Socialism just doesn't work in the long run, it runs out of rich people to tax - and it falls apart.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Wrong Again. Germany is doing very well. Norway has the highest standard of living in the world and Denmark was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the best country in the world for buisness. Canada as of July has fecovered 81% of the jobs they lost in the recession.

    The facts are aginst you

  • @MsZeitgeist85, all of those countries are struggling with their entitlements which will get much much worse now that their baby boomers are retireing.

    Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Greece - and then the rest of the Euro zone.

    I'm happy to wait and see how this plays out this decade. And I think that you know it will not be pretty.

  • @LibertyDownUnder It was caused by Goldman Sachs not by social programs. Go watch the videos of the role Goldman played in those countrys.

  • @MsZeitgeist85, Goldman Sachs certainly made it worse but you cannot blame them for all of these problems. The Greeks brought this on themselves.

  • @LibertyDownUnder "The Greeks brought this on themselves"

    Correct and until they kick out the IMF, nothing will change!

  • @leonvoltaire, true, but this alone won't cure their problems.

    They need to get back to work, and not expect society to support them from the age of 50 onwards.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    Goldman Sachs cooked the books for the previous Greek Government and hid their debt by buying mortgage backed securities and american T-Bills in order for them to join the EU and when the shit finally hit the fan in the US banking system their treasury which had been in the red for decades was nearly wiped out leading to a near total ecomonic collapse.

    So Goldman Sachs played a much greater roll in the Greek economic disaster than most americans would like to admit.

  • @Metalmeltdown1000, I totally agree, but this does not contradict what I said.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    Also, if you want to see how much more vulnerable an ecnomically free country is to bad policy than a less free country, look at Ireland.

  • @rajasmasala, Ireland borrowed and spent like mad.

    This would cripple any country, no matter how free.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    Ireland allowed US companies to borrow and spend like mad and get away with it.

    Yes, that would cripple any country, no matter how free.

  • @rajasmasala, yes, they did. But they also borrowed a lot.

    Every man woman and child in Ireland is $500 grand in debt.

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    "When Ireland's real estate boom busted, the banks shuddered, and the government stepped in, guaranteeing private debt twice as valuable as the country's economy."

    As I said.

  • @MsZeitgeist85 Whoever told you that your Ideology is in the majority lied to you. Single payer and Class Warfare- Class Envy polls in the mid 30s. Maybe in your bubble world of group think those ideas are popular but not in the Heartland of America.

  • @chaumont20 So the Heartland of America enjoys having insurance companys let people die when they cost too much? I don't think that you know what they want.

  • @MsZeitgeist85 That's the typical demonization of Health Insurance that contributes nothing to the debate. Why don't you write a story based on your proof and make yourself alot of money, then Bernie Sanders can tell you how much of that money you can keep. You won't be happy with his answer.

  • @chaumont20 How about the fact that HMOs are the 7th leading cause of death in the US. Or that 62% of all bankruptcys are from medical debt. Or the simple fact that not one single country in the world uses for profit insurance for primary care. Or the fact that the US spends the most on health care and our system is ranked 37th in the world.

    Is that enough reasons to get rid of these parasites.

  • @MsZeitgeist85 " the US spends the most on Health Care and our system is ranked 37th in the world ". and you think 2,500 pages of Liberalism and Progressivism is going to make that better. People all over the world come here for our Health Care, your side will put an end to that. Liberalism and Progressivism never makes anything better.

  • @chaumont20 You completly missed the point. HMOs are not healt care providers. People come here because ether their system pays for it or they pay out of pocket for elective care.

    I don't want 2500 pages of a minor improvemt over an insurnce company system I want the insurance companys put our of buisness and replaced with a Single Payer system that costs less and covers everybody.

  • @chaumont20

    No, it does. It *is* an ethical issue. What is difficult to understand about the need for mandatory healthcare? I don't see how an oligopoly is the perfect solution. A public option would seem to be far more viable. Going forward criticisms should, in a proper system, be taken into account. Where they are not, you would still provide healthcare for all without creating a situation where unnecessary inflation is inevitable. You can always write to GOP to pass small-ins. co laws

  • @rajasmasala The only thing Bipartisen about the Health Care bill was the opposition.

  • @chaumont20 I agree, it was disgusting because it was corporatist. Now we have an oligopoly. As Cenk said, this was far worse than no bill at all.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Socialism all the way. I like honest people. I like honest Socialists even more!

  • @watermelonygoodness, I don't mid the honest ones, but TYT are not honest about it.

  • @LibertyDownUnder I'm not so sure they're socialists. I've heard Cenk make some pro-capitalist arguments in the past.

  • @watermelonygoodness, maybe you're right, but the general direction of their agenda is a collectivist one.

    They want more Government programs, healthcare, education, welfare, public works projects etc.

    Do you mind if I ask whay you think a Socialist Government is a better way to go for the US?

    Aren't you worried what a president you don't approve of will do with all the power of a centrally controlled economy?

  • @LibertyDownUnder

    What is difficult to understand about Norway having such success with sml pop, nat. res. and the invest. in ship.? I don't understand.

    The socialism involved here is not about a centrally controlled economy-- which as far as I know most are-- but about taxing high personal income to enable welfare to help the poor have better standards of living and time to improve themselves. I don't see what this has to do with economic control beyond enabling social uplift.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Well I don't believe in state socialism wherein all the power lies with one individual. A la Stalinism. In a nutshell I believe individuals should be able to opt in or out of various communes wherein the elected governing bodies truly are from among the people. In my opinion, the system we have currently is oppressive and restrictive unless you are born at the top of the chain. Not to mention our elected leaders are not from among us, rather they are part of the elite...

  • @watermelonygoodness that's not socialism that's a dictatorship

  • @theaceofspades39 How is a system you can opt in or out of a dictatorship?

  • @LibertyDownUnder ...that holds the rest of us down. We are given a choice between establishment candidates with corporate agendas who agree on 99% of things but choose to focus on the 1% of things they disagree on and pretend they are polar opposites. (For example, Bush and Obama.) In a system like this I can see how giving more power to the state is perceived as a negative, because in a system like this the government is not really accurately representing the people.

  • @watermelonygoodness, the policies that TYT is pushing are not in any way like what you're suggesting. They don't want anyone to be able to 'opt in' or out.

    Tax hikes, increased regulation and more government departments lead to a centrally planned economy.

    If you are for individual choice, and to reduce corporate power in Washington - Ron Paul is much more in line with your views.

  • @LibertyDownUnder I know TYT is not pushing what I'm talking about. But I do agree with them on some things. Ron Paul I also agree with on some things but I'm not interested in the exploitation we see from free market laissez faire internationally.

  • @watermelonygoodness, if you're poor and uneducated, you have only 2 choices.

    1. Work for low wages, which us rich westerners consider 'exploitation'

    2. Rely on western charities and get used to a life of begging.

    This video explains this issue:

    /watch?v=jTAuEn7HhlI

  • @LibertyDownUnder Paying someone less for their labor than it is worth because they are in a destitute situation is exploitation.

  • @watermelonygoodness, call it what you want - it's pretty much the only way out of poverty for these countries. If you have a better way - lets hear it.

    Africa has been a destitute hole for 40 years, I'm sure there's may people there would love to be 'exploited' for their labour.

  • @LibertyDownUnder The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer is not a solution.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Let me put it to you this way. If a woman is homeless and starving, and a pimp takes her in, beats her and forces her to work in degrading, unsafe conditions, but at the end of the day she gets to keep a small portion of what she makes and is no longer starving. Would you not call that exploitative? That is the exact same thing large corporations do overseas. The reality of sweatshop labor is that the workers are mistreated, abused, forced to work in hazardous...

  • @LibertyDownUnder ...conditions, and are underpaid. They do so because they have no other options, just as a prostitute does what she does often because she does not have other options. I'm not calling it what I want to, I'm calling it what it is. It's exploitation.

  • @watermelonygoodness no I meant that Stalin was a dictator REAL socialism is not run by a single person, it is run by the whole community (as in the root commune i.e. communism)

  • @theaceofspades39 Ohhh, my bad. Misunderstanding. I definitely agree with you there.

  • @watermelonygoodness, ok so how do you fix this?

  • @LibertyDownUnder Businesses should be run democratically, as society is. Workers must always have the right to unionize in order to represent themselves, and company profits should be divided equally among the laborers.

  • @LibertyDownUnder As you said before, it is troublesome to give all that control to one person. The only difference between you and I is that you think it's wrong to give one person (or a small group of elitists) absolute power in society, but that somehow it becomes okay in a corporation. I believe it is wrong and begging for corruption in either case to leave all that authority in the hands of one individual.

  • @watermelonygoodness, France & Spain run very similar systems. It doesn't work.

    People refuse to open businesses and hire, as they know that unions will push them around and tell them what to do.

    Demonising corporations and at the same time wanting them to hire more people & grow - makes no sense.

    Corporations have no power over you. The CEO of Wal Mart cannot kick you out of your house.

    The only instance where they do - is when they collude with Government. But this is not a free market.

  • @LibertyDownUnder The system I am describing does not exist so don't tell me France and Spain have this system and it doesn't work; no one has this system.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Furthermore, how is recognizing workers' rights demonizing corporations? It sounds like you are the one who is demonizing the laborers. They have rights like everyone else and one of those rights is the ability to preserve their interests and dignity.

  • @LibertyDownUnder Unions should be able to push them around and tell them what to do. Workers ARE the corporation. Without them the entire thing will collapse because no one will do the work. I will send you a link to a list of companies that operate democratically. Tell these people what they're doing isn't working.

  • mad props to mr sanders, one of the only legit people in government

  • Sanders and other progressive idiots fighting to tax you after you die. They want to take away what you have earned, and transfer that wealth to Wall Street, global corporations, and drug dealers.

  • @jag10 funny that the republicans want that too.

  • @jag10, very true.

  • @jag10 What is a dead person going to do with that money? The ones who stand to inherit it are usually spoiled rich fucks who don't need it anyway.

  • @PapaMagnum , Even China doesn't have an insulting death tax. The tax rates are at obscene levels considering the services received. I know you have not done any research and are just parroting what this channel and other wall street shills say, but the returning the high taxes will drive successful people from this country and nobody to feed you. You will be left with Weiners and the Sanders and the tree huggers, as your children are rounded up and pushed into a deep hole and covered with dirt.

  • @jag10 LOL yes because TYT are SUCH wall street shills... LOL you never saw the show apparently... and NO, CUTTING taxes drives rich people out of this country which was proven to us when 2/3 of Bushes tax cuts for the rich went to creating jobs OVERSEAS... learn about what you are arguing before coming on a channel FAR, FAR, too out of your league.

    What your party is fighting for is the christian equivalent to sharia law... so don't talk about who's children will suffer from who's policies...

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  • @jag10 Tax rates for the upper 2% are lower now than at any other time in the last century. You can use The Google if you don't believe. Only a conservative would give away billions of dollars in revenue then claim to be for reducing the federal deficit. Maybe we should all quit our jobs so it will be easier to pay off our credit card debts... Sheesh, what a maroon.

  • @granulorhoek , the tax rates for the top earners exceed 50%. Historically, you are mostly correct, under the federal reserve act, except the top earners didn't pay that 60-90% tax.

    I didn't understand your last two points.

    Borrowing to pay for the MIC, welfare programs, foreign aid, UN, corporate bailouts, bank bailouts, growth in gubbermint - at interest, from a private central bank is the biggest problem the taxpayer faces.

    Like a rogue credit card, with no regulation.

  • @jag10

    Good point. Welfare programs won't be on this list if others on the list are taken care of.

  • @femaleasian1 , Not sure what you mean. The only way welfare programs will slow down down is if the gubbermint slows down the funding. It has become a culture to many, and difficult to wean from.

    I don't see that happening, as those who have controlled domestic policy want to increase this welfare state. Our culture of dependency, from food, to clothing, housing, to education, job creation, and rights to life, property, and liberty,etc, etc.

    Just about everything you do is programmed.....sad

  • @granulorhoek

    If you don't like what your government is doing to you Americans, then maybe you should revolt and quit your jobs. You guys are working more hours for less pay and you make fun of China for low paying jobs. LOL

  • @jag10 China doesn't need the estate tax. Secondly, these people are not going to miss that money - they're dead and lucky to have lived in a country that presented them these opportunities. Also, look at the complete track records of your neocon buddies and the liberals, and tell me who favors wall street more. All that deregulation hurt the markets. Why would people worry that much over being taxed after death? It's the spoiled rich kid tax. WAH WAH WAH baby.

  • @PapaMagnum , Not sure what you are trying to say. I am not property of the State. The elites avoid estate taxes.

    Now that argument may gain support, for those who created wealth off the back of taxpayers, like government employees who essentially have never paid tax.

    This is a middle class squeeze, which enriches the ruling class and ensures a welfare state.

    This had nothing to do with deregulation.

    The regulators were ordered to stand down.

    The regulation was corrupted by social engineers

  • @PapaMagnum , what if a 50 year old person dies. He has worked his ass off to provide opportunity for his children so they not become debt slaves.

    Is that what you are proposing, supporting the banks and the government?

    The same two criminal organizations which have caused this whole disaster!

    Is that your intention, or is it to feed and shelter the crack babies which the social system has produced?

  • @jag10 It was the free marketeers who deregulated the economy ruining it, hence the name free marketeers. The estate tax is anything but a middle class squeeze, and you make it sound as if the government taxes all of the money that a person has made once they die. Look up the tax rate for people at different inheritance levels before you start expressing an opinion. The elites are against it because it targets them. Not sure what world you live in, gov't employees pay taxes though.

  • @jag10 Supporting the estate tax is not the same as supporting the banks and the government. The government needs capital to function, and the estate tax is a relatively painless way to get it. The situation with the 50 year old would probably turn out relatively okay for the kids at the tax rate which it works at. I didn't even mention crack babies or anything about a "social system" so I'm just going to assume from this point you need to put words in people's mouths to try and win an argument.

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  • @jag10 An addendum, supporting the estate tax is a proxy way to support the government so they can better do things like regulate banks, provide services, etc.

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  • The United States pays more taxes than the Chinese and Russians, and neither have death taxes. How much bigger does Bernie want the government to grow?

    Chi-com Bernie should be in a labor camp, where he can filibuster which end of a pick axe to use.

  • @jag10

    And yet all your public services are a joke.

    Ever wonder where the money goes????

  • LETS GO BERNIE!

  • God bless Bernie Sanders

  • The top 5% now has 78% of the financial wealth of the country, yet pays onlly 58% of the income tax

    What's worse is we've 100+ other taxes in the country that are regressive meaning the lower classes pay a higher % of their income on them than the top 5%

    Such as - Sales Tax,Soc Security Tax,Telephone Tax,Gasoline Tax,Internet Tex, Cig Tax, Cable Tax, Elec Tax & many other taxes,regisrations,tolls,fees,­fines, etc.

    Also why the top 5% pay a lower % of income in taxes than the middle class

  • Yeah, where were all the other democrats?

  • Shit. I totally tuned out while Ben was speaking. (sigh) It's not worth it to go back and rewatch. Anyway, I love Bernie Sanders.

  • but didn't William Wallas's king sell out to the occupying British and stab him in the back

  • Here's how they pass it. OBAMA ACTUALLY VETOES SOMETHING. He keeps on vetoing any tax bill until the Republicans cave-they don't have the numbers to override the veto, and the'll be exposed for putting the rich above everyone else. It's a win for both policy and politics.

  • I'm so confused by this. How are they going to pass this bill during the lame duck sessions, the democrats still have the house and the senate. Are the dems going to all vote for this? I don't get it.

  • BERNIE SANDERS...YOU DESERVE MORE RESPECT.

  • Stenky is ALWAYS quoting polls and slamming legislators for not doing what the people want and yet, in this case when 68% of people WANT this compromise to go through, he ignores the polls. He is such an ideological scum.

  • @BriansVideoHobby only you dumbass conservatives come up with these childish nicknames like "Stenky" (for Cenk). Seriously when i see shit like that i just am ashamed and sort of disgusted that grown men can be that immature.

  • @crayyawn analyawn, you bore me.

  • @BriansVideoHobby why do i care if i entertain you or not, why bother taking the time to tell someone random they bore you. why don't you stop being an asshole all over this page. prick. youre pathetic

  • @crayyawn More boring.

  • @BriansVideoHobby hahah what a sap.. your comments amuse me

  • @crayyawn " Stenky" (for Cenk). " Seriously when I see shit like that I just am ashamed and sort of didgusted that grown men can be that immature " Really, than how do you feel about the word " teabagger ".

  • @BriansVideoHobby Sorry, but you have that figure completely backward. 67% say they want to pay down on the deficit, and have no tax breaks for the wealthy.

  • @golden79 Sorry, go to gallup and learn up.