I understand why people in debt, especially onerous student loan debt, along with rising housing costs are drawn to Bernie’s message. I get it, I really do. What bothers me is they don’t bother to look beyond the promises and attempt to understand how it would stifle the economic engine that produces the wealth they so desperately want redistributed.

Bernie refuses to acknowledge the trillions upon trillions of dollars it would require to accomplish his egalitarian nightmare. When pressed, he equivocates with statements such as, “How much time do you have?” Even more, he speaks of his plans as if the economic goose would continue to lay golden eggs despite his ideas of heavy taxation and ridiculous regulation. And few of his followers can be bothered to ponder such questions. Not when there’s wealthy ‘awligawrks’ to tar and feather.

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