Bernie is basically your brain on drugs is why. Mona Charen analyzes why in a Townhall article:
"Bernie Sanders thunders that the U.S can become a good Scandinavian-style socialist paradise -- but without the huge taxes on the middle class that support those systems. (Denmark has the highest taxes in the world.) Sanders may be disillusioned to discover that Scandinavian countries have thriving private sectors and are in many respects more business-friendly these days than the United States is. Norway funds its welfare state through the sale of -- wait for it -- fossil fuel pumped from the North Sea. But Bernie doesn't pause over pesky details like how to afford things. He and his party are officially in the reality-free zone where, if you close your eyes and wish with all your heart, dreams really do come true. He's Santa Claus with a Brooklyn accent. This is not politics for grown-ups."
"The Wall Street Journal toted up the new spending Sanders has proposed, including "free" college education for all, Medicare for all, expanding Social Security, paid family leave, bolstering private pensions, a youth jobs initiative and infrastructure spending. They came up with the figure of $18 trillion over 10 years -- and that doesn't count his plan for universal preschool.
No problem, the self-described socialist counters, he will raise the money by taxing the "greedy 1 percent." The problem is arithmetic. The top 1 percent already pays 45.7 percent of all income taxes. The federal government brings in about $1.5 trillion a year in tax revenue. Even if you confiscated 100 percent of the earnings of those making $1 million or above, you'd only net $616 billion, not nearly enough for Bernie's wish list (to say nothing of the depressing effect on productivity such taxes would have)."
Come fly with me ... Yup, reality is so droll. Listening to snippets of the first Democratic "debate" the other night (aka "Queen Hillary's Coronation March") this also appears to be mainline thinking, if you can call it that, in the Democratic Party. If a majority of Americans vote for Wonderland, we're toast anyhow, so let's just get it over with. Otherwise, bring back the adults and let's get down to the hard work that needs to be done because of these clowns.
