Bernie Sanders
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What about the ability to earn more money to get ahead?
What about the very ambitious people that are willing to put in extra hours and go to night school and do everything they have?
That's all gone, right?
So what do these hyper ambitious people do?
What does everybody who's displaced by this very impersonal thing, this impersonal thing that
You need because you can't compete with China.
But the problem with that is the taxes go to what?
An incompetent, corrupt government?
This is the issue that people have.
Look, I'd be more than willing to pay more taxes if we lived in a better country.
I'd be like, this would be great.
If I felt like if I pay more taxes, everybody's surviving, everybody's doing well, that's great.
And ironically, it's bad because there's no competition, right?
It's corrupt, but it's also it's not a free market.
Like the government itself has a monopoly on governing.
And when they're completely corrupt and when they're making insane amounts of money through taxes and they're not accountable.
This is the way I see it.
By the way, I'm not advocating for making it privatized, making all of government privatized.