But there aren't enough billionaires to pay for everything, that's what you aren't understanding. Why would a billionaire stay here anyway if they will be taxed like that... they are frikken billionaires... they will live on their yacht.
We currently have the lowest tax rate for the super wealthy in all of the first World. I really don't think a few percentage points increase is going to materially effect them enough to forgo their houses and live on a yacht. I have to say, i read a lot of political arguments but that one is brand new to me.
Bernie has been a congressman his whole life, and you think he has solved anything for you? He has solved things for Bernie... Bernie cares about Bernie, otherwise he would have complained about his rigged primary last time, not getting the debate questions like some people.... Bernie is in on the scam.
I don't believe Bernie just cares for Bernie. There is zero evidence of that. In fact, he seems to be one of the few candidates who hasn't changed his positions over the years (can you name any others?).
Sadly, I think someone like Bernie doesn't get as much accomplished and is a bit impotent politically in a system where lobbyist write bills and Congress is paid off by corporate interests (look at Bernie's donors, he truly is different in this regard). But he's just one person, he can't do much on his own. I think if he is president he will be blocked at every turn but at least we will begin to have the sorts of conversations I think we need to have as a nation. We have to start somewhere.
Funnily enough, what Bernie is able to accomplish (e.g.. The veterans bill he passed with McCain), Trump took credit for.
They will never run out of people to tax.... and there won't be a middle class once all the roofers, and tradesmen are put out of business by non-citizens undercutting them. You know Bernie wants non-citizens to have free healthcare, right?
Tradesmen being undercut by cheaper labor is a huge problem but Trump is just as guilty at hiring undocumented workers for his hotels and restaurants as the rest of them. He's just a hypocrite about it.
As long as people want cheaper goods and services, outsourcing will happen.
To add to this, I know moral arguments are useless to some but consider how desperate someone would have to be to flee their homeland. Many illegals face extreme gang violence (at direct risk to their families). It's not only that they want a "better life", their situation is bleak and terrifying back home.
Note: i am not for unrestrained immigration. No country allows this for good reason. No country has the resources to handle it. But there are ways we can reduce illegal immigration by affecting the quality of life in Mexico and that can be done by legalizing all drugs and ending the failed drug war. The cartels and corruption are what is keeping a resource rich place like Mexico economically depressed and the US is the biggest market for their black market goods. Wipe out the cartels economically. I actually want to bring this point up to liberals too who want full gun bans as well. Illegal guns just gives the cartels yet another thing to trade on the black market. Prohibition doesn't work for conservative talking points but not liberal and vice versa. Anything that can be traded on the black market will. That's probably a whole other debate, though.
But back to healthcare, would you deny someone trauma care after a car accident if they are illegal? How about let someone die if pneumonia. I have heard the argument, "well they shouldn't have come over here..." Well, what about their kids? Kids who were not any part of that decision. It gets complicated but i would say providing healthcare to illegals is the lessor of the two evils in a non sociopathic society. Illegals do pay sales tax so it's not like they pay no taxes.