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This is _precisely_ equal to saying 'Every person in this country has a right to all the labor & resources of everybody else, to be expropriated through the coercive power of the state, & redistributed as the state sees fit'. But I guess Bernie's version sounds better.

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Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

Sep 2, 2019

Every person in this country must have the right to: -A decent job and a living wage -Quality health care -A complete education -Affordable housing -A clean environment -A secure retirement It's time for a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights.

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@visakanv

Sep 4, 2019

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Politics aside, this is such a grotesque misuse of the word “precisely”. Nowhere does the quoted tweet say “all”

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Unless you'd have to have access to all of it to be able to ensure that everyone had what was promised which *seems* plausible to me? Like for *every* single person to have it I think you'd have to have access to all resources and the ability to distribute them all.

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This is very much not the case in Norway, which meets every point on Bernie's list pretty well. These talking points aren't just wrong - they're completely nuts. Bernie is a moderate, not a tankie.

12:40 PM · Sep 4, 2019Twitter Web App

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Higher marginal tax rates don't mean that rich people stop being rich. It means they can't buy half of DC and still be stinking rich. For ordinary high-income people, sure would suck to lose those insanely high insurance premiums and social costs of endemic poverty, yeah?

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Tankies are very much a problem in the US. But if you don't like commies, you're really shooting yourself in the foot by tolerating runaway rent-seeking from capital. This whole issue is laughable in countries without extreme poverty & plutocracy. Nobody cares about Communism.

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Is it true that *everyone* is Norway has this? Is the homelessness tax literally 0? Isn't it just from their oil revenues?

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It's not literally everyone. But close. No system has perfect throughput. The welfare state is actually dysfunctional, people have trouble w/benefits etc. It's the functional tripartism that's the key. Even low-paid jobs are plenty to survive and have fun, savings, holidays...

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