Most of these same panickers don't seem to realize that the so-called Middle Class tax cut is actually a middle class tax increase. Rates were cut and the standard deduction doubled, but that only lasts for 8 years. (The corporate tax cuts are permanent.) After that it reverts. But the deductions that were lost or capped are still lost or capped. And they changed the way brackets are adjusted for inflation each year so that people will move up into higher brackets more quickly. That will have a massive cumulative effect years down the road. So some people got a temporary tax cut. Some are already paying more. Maybe if these people had a better education they wouldn't be fooled by politicians so easily.

Carol, unclench your f**k-flaps. I'm Canadian, and we pity your sorry a*s, "working the same a*s off..." - Greatest nation on earth....ha! Suck it!

That's the problem with America. Everyone feels since they're here they should be rich. Everyone wants to flaunt their bigger cars and houses. They want status of being rich. Nothing wrong with a normal sized house and a good car. And so long as they have those THINGS forget about anyone else or their living situation. Not everyone's the same. IQs are different so maybe they can't get a good job or complete a good education. No one helps their fellow person. They expect the government to do it and say they're taken care of and forget about them. Yes there is lazy people and they should get the short end of the stick. If you were stranded on an island with you're higher education with someone who doesn't but knows how to live off the land and make things for shelter but you didn't. You would want them to help you. But what if they acted like you said we're not into socialism. Then you'd die of starvation and the elements. Think about it...

What Bernie wants is nothing but theft. It's the government demanding your money so they can give it to others so they can get votes. We live in the poor house while Bernie lives the life of luxury. If you're for that, then you're an idiot. How about you practice what you preach and move out of the US and go to Venezuela or Russia, Cuba, China, etc. See how that pans out.

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Wow! Bernie is really blowin the hot air hard. It only works that way for a while. The government doesn't mine or manufacture. The raw material for the government's "product" comes right out of my wallet and sooner or later I run out of "ore" . The solution is NOT the born-to-fail system of SOCIALISM. It is hard work, saving and planning! Stop playing video games, watching TV and hanging out and go EARN your future you bunch of entitlement minded ignorant little spoiled brats!

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What they were freaking out about is something you don’t understand. And also... you *said* something to these friends of yours. You didn’t *inform* them, because you’re wrong about the “nothing of their lifestyle would change.” That has never been true of socialism, anywhere it’s been implemented. It’s more than about who pays for it, too, but even if it would, that should give you pause unless you’re fully invested in the politics of envy and hate. Person X wants something the benefit of which will fall predominantly him. He should therefore bear the lion’s share of the cost. Instead, politicians want to shift that burden so that everyone else is now paying for that which benefits you. The public already does that, of course, with the first 12 years of your education (and notice until the topic of “socialism pro or con” comes up, pretty much everyone both in and out of USA says the educational system here is doing a poor job). You think tuition is expensive now? Wait til it’s free.

A lot! I'm a curious person, so I have studied mostly natural science subjects like biology, geology, but also history, archeology and so on. :) I like studying, so I just do it.

Der Cappy, get your facts straight.

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Likely it wasn’t so much a matter of studying a lot of subjects as it was taking advantage of the beneficence of the State to keep from going to work (and thus joining the legions of people having to actually pay for people like him).

Free room and board? Where? And yet again you shove that you have never been to university. I think it will take a very long time before we see anything like that in Sweden, as we don't put all our eggs in one basket as they did in Venezuela. We even have oil that we haven't used.

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and you are delusional if you think more legislation if going to fix that socialist mess... Legislation is what caused the problem in the first place... They will never "sacrifice the sacred cows" so to speak, since the will lose their jobs at the next election.

The garden of Eden compaired to yours.

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Proud Texan, citizen of the USA....

Hahaha. You don't know what a neutral country is, do you? If we are in Nato? No, we are neutral. If we let money rain on the military to go oversees and invade other countries so we ca steal from them, instead of spending it on our population? No. If we send UN troups overseas? Actually, yes we do. We go to those places where you are to chicken to go or where there is nothing for you to steal. And no, the terrorist attacks in Sweden comes mostly from the extrem right, you know, those "fine people" your president called them. And even if immigrants like the finns do commit more crime, it's simply because crime is more common in situations like unemployment. And, and this is a big and, your crime rate far exceds ours. For example, your murder rate is 5 times as high as ours. And where did I write that I don't use my education? Stop watching FOX, they are not telling the truth.

Your numbers are way off, like way way off. First: VAT is not 21%, it's 6, 12 or 25 depending on what it is, and on healthcare (including meds) it's 0%. Unhealthy stuff like alcohol and tobacco is at 25%, most groceries at 6 or 12. But that is not even an issue, wages are higher here and minimum income is higher here. I was unemployed for years and lived on social security which is based on the minimum cost of living and I lived just fine on that. Now I work 50% (or 4 h per day) and I make almost double of what I had when I was unemployed and I don't want nor do I need to work fulltime. And again, your numbers are way off. With my (halftime job and therefore lower pay) income I pay just over 17% in monthly taxes. And also, I do NOT pay individual taxes for roads, it's included in the 17% that I pay each month. Which I am happy to do because I never had to pay for every trip to the ER that I had to do in my life, which I had to do many many times since I have multiple food allergies, and I never had to pay for the 4 times I had to ride an ambulance to the ER either.

Obviously we do have a superior system. You are a prime example of what happens when the public are uneducated.