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RE: Bernie Would Get Money OUT of Politics
Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Biden have got something in common and that's the fact that they've got a plan they're trying to utilize in the general election and the issue of this campaign fund is really something I don't know where it's tilting to. Let's see how it turns out
I am not an expert on this, (so don't quote me) but from what I've come away with on it is that right now a candidate gets matching funds from the government based on what they raise privately if they become the presidential nominee. I don't know about you but I am not excited about the prospects of picking up the tab for the difference. Anything the government touches already cost twice that of private industry as that is because people know they can charge whatever and it will get paid. Just look at the price of say toilets to the military, you or I could go buy one for less than a hundred bucks, the military on the other hand it's ten times or more than that.
Look at the debacle recently where Bernie was skirting his campaign workers whereas they weren't making his often quip promise of fifteen dollars an hour for everyone. Did he up the ante and pay it? Yes he did but he cut their hours. Now imagine if it wasn't on Bernies dime to pay that and instead the burden came upon the taxpayers?....then why not twenty, thirty dollars an hour?...he wouldn't be paying it, you and I would.
Then take into account the loss to the private job sector during campaigns. Under his plan there'd be no more conventions, etc., though campaigns cost outrageous amounts of money that money gets redistributed back into communities creating convention related revenue through hotel rentals, restaurants, food vendors, retail shops, not to mention printing companies who obviously must make a small fortune off all those signs....which by the way will double in price once you and I are paying for them. Once they start to ban one convention why not start banning them all?...I mean, really, why would you want to allow a presidential candidate that you and the media are telling everyone in the US that they are hated and despised by everyone only to have them hold rally's where thousands upon thousands of people are showing up? Perhaps a bit of a hidden agenda on Bernies part along with a whole lot of jealousy?