[peter12]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

You say that, but you are completely ignoring how immensely difficult the logistics are to implement most of Bernie's policies.

Say somehow Bernie got the Senate and House to back his universal health care plan. Is he going to ban private health insurance? If he doesn't, then too many doctors will opt out of the government insurance and the government insurance will be terrible. If he does, he puts 2 million people out of work and the law is caught up in lawsuits from state AGs all across the country, and probably doesn't even survive. If it does somehow survive, and more people have access to health care, and no copays to discourage from going to the dr for every little thing, where do all the extra health care workers come from? There are so many other potential pitfalls as well. It just doesn't seem plausible that it would be successful enough out of the gate to not have the democrats wiped out in the next midterms.

Does shutting down nuclear plants and natural gas production help climate change or hurt it? My bet is on hurt it unless we suddenly stop caring about having reliable electricity.

Does a min wage that is the same in San Francisco, New York and some small town in Alabama make sense? A $15 min wage in some small towns with low cost of living would definitely have negative effects to the local economy, while not having any effect or even being a minimum wage for other cities.

Does a wealth tax really bring in as much money as he promises or will it have the same pitfalls as it did in Europe?


To me, everyone of Bernie's ideas may be nice thoughts, but they are mostly overly simple solutions to very complex problems, and they all have opportunities to backfire in a way that makes things worse for the people they are trying to help.

Ran out of thanks, so just want to say this is such a good post.