Public opinion favors progressive policies. So why do republicans get elected?

[Clementine]

Most people favor
-The family
-Borders
-A strong defense
-Law enforcement
-Working


Outside of these I'll agree that investment in our country is a serious plus for the democrats.

Dems claim they want to invest in America, but what good did the stimulus do? It was supposed to be an investment.

Dems are good about promising stuff, like fair taxes, but they always end up hitting middle class. I haven't seen Dems go after Wall Street or try to make the wealthy pay more taxes. They've had chances, but they never do anything.

Everyone should believe in less pollution. Of course, the proposed solutions to global warming won't do shit other than steal more money from people. And it's just so heartwarming the way some super liberals, like Cher and Barbra Streisand, have sprawling green lawns surrounding their huge swimming pools as the poor people worry about drinking water. Hypocrites.

I think most might agree with what all politicians say they'll do, but few promises are kept and the actual legislation never delivers what was promised. They're all good at lying to us just so they can do what they want.

 

[Billy000]

Obviously it's because the average American doesn't know which party represents which policies. Bernie Sanders is what this country needs but republicans are too stupid to realize it.

Big Business

• About three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans--including 84 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents, and 62 percent of Republicans--believe that corporations have too much influence on American life and politics today, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll. In contrast, only 37 percent think that labor unions exercise too much influence.

• The Pew Research Center discovered that 60 percent of Americans--including 75 percent of Democrats--believe that "the economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy."

• Fifty-eight percent of Americans say they would support breaking up "big banks like Citigroup," a key plank of Sanders' platform and the goal of a bill that Sanders sponsored in the Senate.

• Seventy-three percent of Americans favor tougher rules for Wall Street financial companies, versus 17 percent who oppose stronger regulation.

• Sixty-four percent of Americans strongly or somewhat favor regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories and cars and requiring utilities to generate more power from "clean" low-carbon sources.

Progressive Taxation

• More than three-quarters of Americans (79 percent) think that wealthy people don't pay their fair share of taxes, while 82 percent believe that some corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes.

• Sixty-eight percent of Americans favorraising taxes on people earning more than $1 million per year, including 87 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of independents, and 53 percent of Republicans.

Inequality and Poverty

• A strong majority (66 percent) say that wealth should be more evenly divided and that it is a problem that should be addressed urgently.

• Ninety-two percent of Americans want a society with far less income disparity than currently exists in the United States. Americans prefer some inequality to perfect equality, according to the professors at the Harvard Business School and Duke University who conducted the survey. But when asked to pick an ideal level of income disparity, Americans prefer the more egalitarian level similar to the one in Sweden (although without identifying the country by name) to that in the U.S. What's more, the rich and the poor, and Democrats and Republicans, are almost equally likely to choose the Swedish model. For example, 93.5 percent of Democrats and 90.2 percent of Republicans preferred the level of income distribution that exists in Sweden.

• Sixty-nine percent of Americans--including 90 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents, and 45 percent of Republicans--believe that the government should help reduce the gap between the rich and everyone else. Eighty-two percent of Americans--including 94 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of independents, and 64 percent of Republicans--think the government should help reduce poverty.

Money in Politics

• Eighty-four percent of Americans think that money has too much influence in politics. Slightly more Americans (85 percent) want an overhaul of our campaign finance system

• Seventy-eight percent of Americans think that campaign spending by outside groups not affiliated with candidates should be limited by law.

• A majority of Americans (54 percent) believe that money given to political candidates is not a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. In other words, they disagree with the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

Minimum Wage and Workers' Rights

• A recent poll by Hart Research Associates found that 75 percent of Americans (including 53 percent of Republicans) support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $12.50 an hour by 2020. Sixty-three percent of Americans support an even greater increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.

• Eighty percent of Americans favor requiring employers to offer paid leave to parents of new children and employees caring for sick family members. An even larger number (85 percent) favor requiring employers to offer paid leave to employees who are ill.

• A significant majority of Americans supportthe right of workers to unionize, despite several decades of corporate-sponsored anti-union propaganda. Eighty-two percent believe that factory and manufacturing workers should have the right to unionize. A vast majority also support the right to unionize for transportation workers (74 percent), police and firefighters (72 percent), public school teachers (71 percent), workers in supermarkets and retail sales (68 percent), and fast food workers (62 percent).

Health Care and Social Security

• Over 50 percent of Americans (including one-quarter of Republicans and nearly 80 percent of Democrats) say they support a single-payer "Medicare for All" approach to health insurance, something Sanders has long advocated. Only 36 percent oppose the idea. 12 percent are neutral.

• Seventy-one percent Americans support a public option, which would give individuals the choice of buying healthcare through Medicare or private insurers. This was part of Obama's original health care plan in 2010 but the insurance industry lobby killed it, thanks to every Senate Republican and a handful of Senate Democrats, led by former Senator Max Baucus of Montana.

• The Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans want to lift the income cap on Social Security to require higher-income workers to pay Social Security taxes on all of their wages. Most people don't realize that workers who earn more than $118,500 a year don't contribute on their full income and that simply removing that tax loophole for high earners would close the lion's share of Social Security's modest long-term funding gap. Legislation introduced by Senator Sanders and Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon would apply the same payroll tax already paid by more than nine out of 10 Americans to those with incomes over $250,000 a year. Census Bureau data shows that only about 5 percent (1 in 18) of workers would pay more if the cap were scrapped, and only the top 1.4 percent (one in 71 workers) would be affected if the tax were applied to earnings over $250,000.

Higher Education

• More than three-quarters (79 percent) of Americans think that education beyond high school is not affordable for everyone in the U.S. who needs it. Seventy-seven percent believe that higher education institutions should reduce tuition and fees, while 59 percent and 55 percent respectively agree that state governments and the federal government should provide more assistance. The average tuition bill for students at a public four-year college has increased by more than 250 percent over the past three decades. More than one-third (35 percent) of 2000-2014 college graduates report graduating with more than $25,000 in undergraduate student loan debt, in inflation-adjusted dollars. The recently graduated college class of 2015 has an average debt burden of $35,051 per student, the highest ever. Sanders introduced legislation to make four-year public colleges and universities tuition-free, paid for through a tax on Wall Street transactions.

Same-Sex Marriage

• Today, 60 percent of Americans believe it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to marry, according to Gallup, a figure that is likely to increase following the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. But in 1996, only 27 percent felt that way. That year, then-Congressman Sanders was one of only 67 House members to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of gay marriages.

Is Bernie Sanders Too Radical for America Peter Dreier

(None of these polls were conducted by the Huffington Post)

The Greeks favor all the same things. Look where that got them.

Lol so does Norway and they have the best economy in Europe. The 4th highest GDP of a nation in the world

Norway is the Scandinavian equivalent of Saudi Arabia. Its good fortune has nothing to do with Socialism. It occurs despite socialism.

Just admit you know nothing about their government or economy.

 

[Billy000]

Public opinion favors progressive policies. So why do republicans get elected?


)

Because many Republicans will adopt those fascistic policies which will make them electable. Obama's Career Bureaucrat Jonathan Gruber has categorized Americans as stupid. So your idol Bernard Sanders has a good chance to being elected. The American dream : free lunches and something for nothing.


.

Education serves the greater good, not just the individual. Intelligent people do not go to college simply because of cost. That is why it should be free. There really isn't anything "free lunch" about his platform beyond that.

MR DUMB ASS, SIR:

1- who pays for the textbooks
2- who pays the teachers
3- why do you have children if you can't afford to educate them


.

1) it's completely reasonable the student would.
2) taxes. Bernie proposed a tax on Wall Street speculation to fund it.
3) should we just put them to sleep then?

 

[2aguy]

Obviously it's because the average American doesn't know which party represents which policies. Bernie Sanders is what this country needs but republicans are too stupid to realize it.

Big Business

• About three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans--including 84 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents, and 62 percent of Republicans--believe that corporations have too much influence on American life and politics today, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll. In contrast, only 37 percent think that labor unions exercise too much influence.

• The Pew Research Center discovered that 60 percent of Americans--including 75 percent of Democrats--believe that "the economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy."

• Fifty-eight percent of Americans say they would support breaking up "big banks like Citigroup," a key plank of Sanders' platform and the goal of a bill that Sanders sponsored in the Senate.

• Seventy-three percent of Americans favor tougher rules for Wall Street financial companies, versus 17 percent who oppose stronger regulation.

• Sixty-four percent of Americans strongly or somewhat favor regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories and cars and requiring utilities to generate more power from "clean" low-carbon sources.

Progressive Taxation

• More than three-quarters of Americans (79 percent) think that wealthy people don't pay their fair share of taxes, while 82 percent believe that some corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes.

• Sixty-eight percent of Americans favorraising taxes on people earning more than $1 million per year, including 87 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of independents, and 53 percent of Republicans.

Inequality and Poverty

• A strong majority (66 percent) say that wealth should be more evenly divided and that it is a problem that should be addressed urgently.

• Ninety-two percent of Americans want a society with far less income disparity than currently exists in the United States. Americans prefer some inequality to perfect equality, according to the professors at the Harvard Business School and Duke University who conducted the survey. But when asked to pick an ideal level of income disparity, Americans prefer the more egalitarian level similar to the one in Sweden (although without identifying the country by name) to that in the U.S. What's more, the rich and the poor, and Democrats and Republicans, are almost equally likely to choose the Swedish model. For example, 93.5 percent of Democrats and 90.2 percent of Republicans preferred the level of income distribution that exists in Sweden.

• Sixty-nine percent of Americans--including 90 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents, and 45 percent of Republicans--believe that the government should help reduce the gap between the rich and everyone else. Eighty-two percent of Americans--including 94 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of independents, and 64 percent of Republicans--think the government should help reduce poverty.

Money in Politics

• Eighty-four percent of Americans think that money has too much influence in politics. Slightly more Americans (85 percent) want an overhaul of our campaign finance system

• Seventy-eight percent of Americans think that campaign spending by outside groups not affiliated with candidates should be limited by law.

• A majority of Americans (54 percent) believe that money given to political candidates is not a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. In other words, they disagree with the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

Minimum Wage and Workers' Rights

• A recent poll by Hart Research Associates found that 75 percent of Americans (including 53 percent of Republicans) support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $12.50 an hour by 2020. Sixty-three percent of Americans support an even greater increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.

• Eighty percent of Americans favor requiring employers to offer paid leave to parents of new children and employees caring for sick family members. An even larger number (85 percent) favor requiring employers to offer paid leave to employees who are ill.

• A significant majority of Americans supportthe right of workers to unionize, despite several decades of corporate-sponsored anti-union propaganda. Eighty-two percent believe that factory and manufacturing workers should have the right to unionize. A vast majority also support the right to unionize for transportation workers (74 percent), police and firefighters (72 percent), public school teachers (71 percent), workers in supermarkets and retail sales (68 percent), and fast food workers (62 percent).

Health Care and Social Security

• Over 50 percent of Americans (including one-quarter of Republicans and nearly 80 percent of Democrats) say they support a single-payer "Medicare for All" approach to health insurance, something Sanders has long advocated. Only 36 percent oppose the idea. 12 percent are neutral.

• Seventy-one percent Americans support a public option, which would give individuals the choice of buying healthcare through Medicare or private insurers. This was part of Obama's original health care plan in 2010 but the insurance industry lobby killed it, thanks to every Senate Republican and a handful of Senate Democrats, led by former Senator Max Baucus of Montana.

• The Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans want to lift the income cap on Social Security to require higher-income workers to pay Social Security taxes on all of their wages. Most people don't realize that workers who earn more than $118,500 a year don't contribute on their full income and that simply removing that tax loophole for high earners would close the lion's share of Social Security's modest long-term funding gap. Legislation introduced by Senator Sanders and Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon would apply the same payroll tax already paid by more than nine out of 10 Americans to those with incomes over $250,000 a year. Census Bureau data shows that only about 5 percent (1 in 18) of workers would pay more if the cap were scrapped, and only the top 1.4 percent (one in 71 workers) would be affected if the tax were applied to earnings over $250,000.

Higher Education

• More than three-quarters (79 percent) of Americans think that education beyond high school is not affordable for everyone in the U.S. who needs it. Seventy-seven percent believe that higher education institutions should reduce tuition and fees, while 59 percent and 55 percent respectively agree that state governments and the federal government should provide more assistance. The average tuition bill for students at a public four-year college has increased by more than 250 percent over the past three decades. More than one-third (35 percent) of 2000-2014 college graduates report graduating with more than $25,000 in undergraduate student loan debt, in inflation-adjusted dollars. The recently graduated college class of 2015 has an average debt burden of $35,051 per student, the highest ever. Sanders introduced legislation to make four-year public colleges and universities tuition-free, paid for through a tax on Wall Street transactions.

Same-Sex Marriage

• Today, 60 percent of Americans believe it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to marry, according to Gallup, a figure that is likely to increase following the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. But in 1996, only 27 percent felt that way. That year, then-Congressman Sanders was one of only 67 House members to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of gay marriages.

Is Bernie Sanders Too Radical for America Peter Dreier

(None of these polls were conducted by the Huffington Post)

The Greeks favor all the same things. Look where that got them.

Can you name a single first world country that doesn't invest in its own infrastructure? There's a big difference between investment and doling out free shit.

Check out "The Big Dig" and any other "infrastructure" project......a.k.a. graft and corruption on a huge scale..........

 

[rdean]

So....we send tax money to Washington...they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it....then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection....

Now, morons like you say...but that simply means we have to increase taxes because there isn't enough money spent to help people.....

Again....we send tax money to Washington....they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it...then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection.....

So....how many times do you have to have that repeated before it sinks in that we don't have a tax raising problem...we have a corrupt politician problem......

and guys like you want to just keep sending them money......see above....

Why Paved Roads Are Being Converted to Gravel

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/rural_michigan_counties_turn_f.html
As goes Michigan's crumbling economy, so go some once-paved rural roads now being turned back into gravel.

Texas can t afford paved roads replaces them with gravel RT USA

We already know what you want.

 

[ninja007]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

 

[rdean]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

Scott Walker Takes A National Risk With State Education Cuts - NBC News

The cuts amount to 13 percent of the system's budget and are the largest in the system's history in a long line of budget cuts.
His proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin system, however, could be more problematic for Walker.
"IF I'M A DEMOCRAT, MY FIRST COMMERCIAL IS WALKER CUTS $300 MILLION TO EDUCATION BUT GIVES $200 MILLION TO THE NBA."

---------------------------

This is why Republicans can be such awful tards. Instead of thinking up way of growing revenue, they want to save money by turning paved roads to gravel. That's the tard solution.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

So....we send tax money to Washington...they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it....then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection....

Now, morons like you say...but that simply means we have to increase taxes because there isn't enough money spent to help people.....

Again....we send tax money to Washington....they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it...then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection.....

So....how many times do you have to have that repeated before it sinks in that we don't have a tax raising problem...we have a corrupt politician problem......

and guys like you want to just keep sending them money......see above....

Why Paved Roads Are Being Converted to Gravel

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/rural_michigan_counties_turn_f.html
As goes Michigan's crumbling economy, so go some once-paved rural roads now being turned back into gravel.

Texas can t afford paved roads replaces them with gravel RT USA

We already know what you want.

The reason behind not repaving those roads in the middle of nowhere Texas has been explained to you over and over,yet you still trot out this bullshit on a regular basis.
Why is that?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

Scott Walker Takes A National Risk With State Education Cuts - NBC News

The cuts amount to 13 percent of the system's budget and are the largest in the system's history in a long line of budget cuts.
His proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin system, however, could be more problematic for Walker.
"IF I'M A DEMOCRAT, MY FIRST COMMERCIAL IS WALKER CUTS $300 MILLION TO EDUCATION BUT GIVES $200 MILLION TO THE NBA."

---------------------------

This is why Republicans can be such awful tards. Instead of thinking up way of growing revenue, they want to save money by turning paved roads to gravel. That's the tard solution.

Well, the NBA does do a better job than the education system.

 

[Billy000]

So....we send tax money to Washington...they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it....then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection....

Now, morons like you say...but that simply means we have to increase taxes because there isn't enough money spent to help people.....

Again....we send tax money to Washington....they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it...then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection.....

So....how many times do you have to have that repeated before it sinks in that we don't have a tax raising problem...we have a corrupt politician problem......

and guys like you want to just keep sending them money......see above....

Why Paved Roads Are Being Converted to Gravel

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/rural_michigan_counties_turn_f.html
As goes Michigan's crumbling economy, so go some once-paved rural roads now being turned back into gravel.

Texas can t afford paved roads replaces them with gravel RT USA

We already know what you want.

The reason behind not repaving those roads in the middle of nowhere Texas has been explained to you over and over,yet you still trot out this bullshit on a regular basis.
Why is that?

And where exactly are they?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

So....we send tax money to Washington...they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it....then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection....

Now, morons like you say...but that simply means we have to increase taxes because there isn't enough money spent to help people.....

Again....we send tax money to Washington....they waste it, spend it on themselves and their friends and steal it...then the pennies that are left they use to buy votes for their reelection.....

So....how many times do you have to have that repeated before it sinks in that we don't have a tax raising problem...we have a corrupt politician problem......

and guys like you want to just keep sending them money......see above....

Why Paved Roads Are Being Converted to Gravel

http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/06/rural_michigan_counties_turn_f.html
As goes Michigan's crumbling economy, so go some once-paved rural roads now being turned back into gravel.

Texas can t afford paved roads replaces them with gravel RT USA

We already know what you want.

The reason behind not repaving those roads in the middle of nowhere Texas has been explained to you over and over,yet you still trot out this bullshit on a regular basis.
Why is that?

And where exactly are they?

We're talking about 80 miles of road out of 675,000.
These roads have been damaged by eighteen wheelers hauling oil rig equipment.
They are in the Eagle Ford shale area of S. Texas,a very sparsely populated area.
These are ranch roads in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Billy000]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

Scott Walker Takes A National Risk With State Education Cuts - NBC News

The cuts amount to 13 percent of the system's budget and are the largest in the system's history in a long line of budget cuts.
His proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin system, however, could be more problematic for Walker.
"IF I'M A DEMOCRAT, MY FIRST COMMERCIAL IS WALKER CUTS $300 MILLION TO EDUCATION BUT GIVES $200 MILLION TO THE NBA."

---------------------------

This is why Republicans can be such awful tards. Instead of thinking up way of growing revenue, they want to save money by turning paved roads to gravel. That's the tard solution.

Well, the NBA does do a better job than the education system.

What?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Obviously it's because the average American doesn't know which party represents which policies. Bernie Sanders is what this country needs but republicans are too stupid to realize it.

Big Business

• About three-quarters (74 percent) of Americans--including 84 percent of Democrats, 72 percent of independents, and 62 percent of Republicans--believe that corporations have too much influence on American life and politics today, according to a recent New York Times/CBS News poll. In contrast, only 37 percent think that labor unions exercise too much influence.

• The Pew Research Center discovered that 60 percent of Americans--including 75 percent of Democrats--believe that "the economic system in this country unfairly favors the wealthy."

• Fifty-eight percent of Americans say they would support breaking up "big banks like Citigroup," a key plank of Sanders' platform and the goal of a bill that Sanders sponsored in the Senate.

• Seventy-three percent of Americans favor tougher rules for Wall Street financial companies, versus 17 percent who oppose stronger regulation.

• Sixty-four percent of Americans strongly or somewhat favor regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories and cars and requiring utilities to generate more power from "clean" low-carbon sources.

Progressive Taxation

• More than three-quarters of Americans (79 percent) think that wealthy people don't pay their fair share of taxes, while 82 percent believe that some corporations don't pay their fair share of taxes.

• Sixty-eight percent of Americans favorraising taxes on people earning more than $1 million per year, including 87 percent of Democrats, 65 percent of independents, and 53 percent of Republicans.

Inequality and Poverty

• A strong majority (66 percent) say that wealth should be more evenly divided and that it is a problem that should be addressed urgently.

• Ninety-two percent of Americans want a society with far less income disparity than currently exists in the United States. Americans prefer some inequality to perfect equality, according to the professors at the Harvard Business School and Duke University who conducted the survey. But when asked to pick an ideal level of income disparity, Americans prefer the more egalitarian level similar to the one in Sweden (although without identifying the country by name) to that in the U.S. What's more, the rich and the poor, and Democrats and Republicans, are almost equally likely to choose the Swedish model. For example, 93.5 percent of Democrats and 90.2 percent of Republicans preferred the level of income distribution that exists in Sweden.

• Sixty-nine percent of Americans--including 90 percent of Democrats, 69 percent of independents, and 45 percent of Republicans--believe that the government should help reduce the gap between the rich and everyone else. Eighty-two percent of Americans--including 94 percent of Democrats, 83 percent of independents, and 64 percent of Republicans--think the government should help reduce poverty.
  

Money in Politics

• Eighty-four percent of Americans think that money has too much influence in politics. Slightly more Americans (85 percent) want an overhaul of our campaign finance system

• Seventy-eight percent of Americans think that campaign spending by outside groups not affiliated with candidates should be limited by law.

• A majority of Americans (54 percent) believe that money given to political candidates is not a form of free speech protected by the First Amendment. In other words, they disagree with the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling.

Minimum Wage and Workers' Rights

• A recent poll by Hart Research Associates found that 75 percent of Americans (including 53 percent of Republicans) support an increase in the federal minimum wage to $12.50 an hour by 2020. Sixty-three percent of Americans support an even greater increase in the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.

• Eighty percent of Americans favor requiring employers to offer paid leave to parents of new children and employees caring for sick family members. An even larger number (85 percent) favor requiring employers to offer paid leave to employees who are ill.

• A significant majority of Americans supportthe right of workers to unionize, despite several decades of corporate-sponsored anti-union propaganda. Eighty-two percent believe that factory and manufacturing workers should have the right to unionize. A vast majority also support the right to unionize for transportation workers (74 percent), police and firefighters (72 percent), public school teachers (71 percent), workers in supermarkets and retail sales (68 percent), and fast food workers (62 percent).

Health Care and Social Security

• Over 50 percent of Americans (including one-quarter of Republicans and nearly 80 percent of Democrats) say they support a single-payer "Medicare for All" approach to health insurance, something Sanders has long advocated. Only 36 percent oppose the idea. 12 percent are neutral.

• Seventy-one percent Americans support a public option, which would give individuals the choice of buying healthcare through Medicare or private insurers. This was part of Obama's original health care plan in 2010 but the insurance industry lobby killed it, thanks to every Senate Republican and a handful of Senate Democrats, led by former Senator Max Baucus of Montana.

• The Gallup poll found that 67 percent of Americans want to lift the income cap on Social Security to require higher-income workers to pay Social Security taxes on all of their wages. Most people don't realize that workers who earn more than $118,500 a year don't contribute on their full income and that simply removing that tax loophole for high earners would close the lion's share of Social Security's modest long-term funding gap. Legislation introduced by Senator Sanders and Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon would apply the same payroll tax already paid by more than nine out of 10 Americans to those with incomes over $250,000 a year. Census Bureau data shows that only about 5 percent (1 in 18) of workers would pay more if the cap were scrapped, and only the top 1.4 percent (one in 71 workers) would be affected if the tax were applied to earnings over $250,000.

Higher Education

• More than three-quarters (79 percent) of Americans think that education beyond high school is not affordable for everyone in the U.S. who needs it. Seventy-seven percent believe that higher education institutions should reduce tuition and fees, while 59 percent and 55 percent respectively agree that state governments and the federal government should provide more assistance. The average tuition bill for students at a public four-year college has increased by more than 250 percent over the past three decades. More than one-third (35 percent) of 2000-2014 college graduates report graduating with more than $25,000 in undergraduate student loan debt, in inflation-adjusted dollars. The recently graduated college class of 2015 has an average debt burden of $35,051 per student, the highest ever. Sanders introduced legislation to make four-year public colleges and universities tuition-free, paid for through a tax on Wall Street transactions.

Same-Sex Marriage

• Today, 60 percent of Americans believe it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to marry, according to Gallup, a figure that is likely to increase following the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. But in 1996, only 27 percent felt that way. That year, then-Congressman Sanders was one of only 67 House members to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred federal recognition of gay marriages.

Is Bernie Sanders Too Radical for America Peter Dreier

(None of these polls were conducted by the Huffington Post)

One of the best posts ever on USMB.

What too many people call liberalism (with derogatory intentions) is really mainstream Americanism.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

Scott Walker Takes A National Risk With State Education Cuts - NBC News

The cuts amount to 13 percent of the system's budget and are the largest in the system's history in a long line of budget cuts.
His proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin system, however, could be more problematic for Walker.
"IF I'M A DEMOCRAT, MY FIRST COMMERCIAL IS WALKER CUTS $300 MILLION TO EDUCATION BUT GIVES $200 MILLION TO THE NBA."

---------------------------

This is why Republicans can be such awful tards. Instead of thinking up way of growing revenue, they want to save money by turning paved roads to gravel. That's the tard solution.

Well, the NBA does do a better job than the education system.

What?

The NBA accomplishes their goals better than our education system accomplishes their goals.

 

[Billy000]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

Scott Walker Takes A National Risk With State Education Cuts - NBC News

The cuts amount to 13 percent of the system's budget and are the largest in the system's history in a long line of budget cuts.
His proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin system, however, could be more problematic for Walker.
"IF I'M A DEMOCRAT, MY FIRST COMMERCIAL IS WALKER CUTS $300 MILLION TO EDUCATION BUT GIVES $200 MILLION TO THE NBA."

---------------------------

This is why Republicans can be such awful tards. Instead of thinking up way of growing revenue, they want to save money by turning paved roads to gravel. That's the tard solution.

Well, the NBA does do a better job than the education system.

What?

The NBA accomplishes their goals better than our education system accomplishes their goals.

Yeah the NBA has plenty of funding.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

yes.. libs care about education and the poor; thats why the lib run colleges cost 25-30 grand a year.

Scott Walker Takes A National Risk With State Education Cuts - NBC News

The cuts amount to 13 percent of the system's budget and are the largest in the system's history in a long line of budget cuts.
His proposed $300 million cut to the University of Wisconsin system, however, could be more problematic for Walker.
"IF I'M A DEMOCRAT, MY FIRST COMMERCIAL IS WALKER CUTS $300 MILLION TO EDUCATION BUT GIVES $200 MILLION TO THE NBA."

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This is why Republicans can be such awful tards. Instead of thinking up way of growing revenue, they want to save money by turning paved roads to gravel. That's the tard solution.

Well, the NBA does do a better job than the education system.

What?

The NBA accomplishes their goals better than our education system accomplishes their goals.

Yeah the NBA has plenty of funding.

Not as much as education.