@BernieSanders It’s arrogance that you believe that you and the government can do better with people’s money (property) than they can do with it themselves.
@SenWarren Implement a flat tax (say 10%) above some income threshold (say $36k), allow deductions for SALT, education, tithe, mortgage int, groceries, elder/childcare, health & medical expenses. Better, scrap income tax (& IRS) and only have a sales tax with similar exemptions.
Bernie has spent decades reducing economics to resentment politics.
Net worth and ownership don’t equal tyranny. They equal equity in companies people voluntarily use.
Calling private ownership “oligarchy” while advocating massive centralized state power is just a relocation to favor political corruption and waste.
Concentrated political power is worse than concentrated wealth. At least markets require consent. Government does not.
That’s the real debate.