^None of those things are particularly crazy, depending on the context and the specific service or company we're talking about. As for enviro regulations, his website says he's in favour of enforcing "reasonable" regulations in line with what he did in New Mexico, for whatever that's worth.
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Originally Posted by GGG
Idealist is a better word than idiot or simpleton.
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It's closer; I'd say he's pretty much the small government version of Sanders or some version thereof. That is, some of the ideas are fine in theory but aren't workable.
For example, cutting the federal budget gradually to the point where there isn't a structural deficit? Fine. Just realize that'll take over a decade. His platform, instead, says "cut the budget 43% to bring it into balance". Doing that in a single Presidential term is batcrap insane and would probably be just as damaging as Trump's policies.
That said, in the interviews I have heard him in, he's really quick to say "that's a target, these things have to be passed through congress and will obviously be negotiated". So he does at least have some sense of reality.