Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders political revolution is basically, take the rich peoples money, while using that money to pay for government benefits such as free health care. Not only rich people, but also large corporations, and wall street, Mr. Sanders will give this money to the federal government (effectively giving the government more power) in order to fund his "Political Revolution". Is this too unrealistic for America? Yes it is in fact is goes against what America stands for as a country. America was started in the first place in order to evade the HUGE tax hikes from British, now Mr. Sanders wants to bring these tax hikes back effectively throwing the American dream in the trash. With these massive hikes to the wealthy less and less people will strive to work hard enough to reach the point of that wealth. America has housed some of the greater innovators of the modern world creating world changing products (example is the Iphone). This innovation makes America great, and these innovators made these products because they strived to be something better, they strived for wealth. Now who is going to want to strive for wealth if the government is going to take that money anyway? Another flaw with Mr. Sanders plan is that he doesn't account for one very important thing, human nature. You can take every dime from the wealthy and give it to the poor, but eventually that money will end up in the same "corrupt" hands. Its just plain human nature, I don't believe that you need to keep raising taxes on the rich, in fact the top 10 percent paid 68% of the federal income tax but yet they earned 45% of the income, where as the bottom 50% paid 3% of federal income taxes, but they managed to earn 12% of the income (source: http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/top10-percent-income-earners). In my opinion the wealthy are paying more than their fare share of taxes, and that Mr. Sanders plan is only going to make it harder on the wealthy, the more money you take from the wealthy the less money they will have to invest into smaller businesses which as I said before hurts the American dream. Taking corporations more and more will only cause for them to keep more and more jobs for overseas losing american jobs. Raising the minimum wage will force companies to hire less people for shorter shifts , bringing us back to where we started. Giving every single illegal immigrant a chance to be an american citizen will only cripple our economy, by american jobs being lost. I believe that you should help the source of the problem Mexico in the war of drugs and to boost their economy in order for them to support their people. You should still let illegal immigrants who have been here for a certain amount of time to gain U.S. citizenship because you can't just deport them all because its not the American way. More taxes on wall street is not a good idea because this will not help the everyday investor and he/r quest for wealth, allowing for people to invest their money boosts business and allowing for companies to hire more workers, raise pay, etc ultimately boosting the economy. Even if Mr. Sanders does end up putting his plan into action, it will not be funded well enough to move forward, he will then have to raise taxes on not just the rich but also on the everyday american. His plans are so long term that the next president after him (assuming he goes for 8 years) will have to move along with his plans in order for them to be completed. I have ranted long enough so I will not question his age or socialism. In the end Presidential Candidate Bernard Sanders "Political Revolution" goes against what America stands for and will NOT work for this country.
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