Can someone answer why they expect the Clintons to help balance the wealth distribution in our

[berniepdx420]

country ?... Haven't they been a part of the power structure that ushered in this insane concentration of wealth at the top??

Do all of us see the imminent danger to our Democracy from this concentration of wealth at the top ?

[amborin]

1. no one expects them to; they are members of the elite power structure and disdain the very thought

of any changes that might threaten this hegemonic power

[libtodeath]

2. Seeing how they have collected millions in the last 15 years I expect nothing from them.

[RKP5637]

3. Yep, like the trade agreements that screw over most Americans. It will be the SOS! Big buck people

will do well, the rest will be forgotten.

[dragonfly301]

4. I have no such expectations

that's why I'm voting for Bernie!

[onehandle]

5. Recently I was in Portland.

I think it was around the 23rd of the month.

Wait... I've lost my train of thought.

[UglyGreed]

9. What a wonderful reply

[onehandle]

10. I had a limburger panini while I was there.

Or some sort of sandwich with cheese.

I forget.

[UglyGreed]

11. Well I would look into

these memory lapses.....

[mcar]

15. I've never been to Portland

Is it nice?

[onehandle]

16. Yeah, but it seemed familiar.

Kept thinking I was seeing the same person over and over.

[George II]

21. I've been to Portland 23 times in my life. I couldn't wait to return.

[onehandle]

22. Stop at 23.

Any Portlander will tell you that.

[SoLeftIAmRight]

6. The Clinton economic philosophy is rooted completely and blindly ...

in the failed trickle down Chicago school of thought.

Nothing she says or does indicates that she has any understanding or even knowledge of any other options. Two generations of economist and business men/women are infused with these destructive ideas. They heap scorn on dissenters like the church did when it was faced with the idea that the earth revolves around the sun. Forty years of declining prospects for the American people has done nothing to shake the unfailing worship of Chicago school philosophy.

One of the more insidious pillars of this philosophy is that unemployment is necessary. Let that sink in. Unemployment is necessary.

For me, supporting a system or supporting the advocates of a system that ensures many millions of people must scramble and struggle to survive is abhorrent.

Full employment, a high minimum wage and income security changes everything.

Everything.

And that is what this fight is about. Far too many of the comfortable among us fear change and they will blindly fight against the ideas that they do not understand or care about.

[TeddyR]

7. As a Bernie supporter

What exactly do you expect to happen that will "balance wealth distribution"? We have and will continue to have an economy based on capitalism.

[Vincardog]

12. We can return to a realistic tax on the top incomes close corporate tax loopholes and return to an

America first trade policy.

[Hydra]

13. Not for very much longer

Capitalism can't handle climate change- look at all the damage last summer(Nearly $1 Bill for fighting wildfires) and this winter. Who is going to pay for all of that? Who is going to pay for the full clean energy transition we needed more than 20 years ago?

We just had massive power outages due to a severe winter storm today. Shouldn't we be replacing all of that outdated infrastructure? Who will pay for that too?

We're going to a better system, or we're going to crash and burn. There are no other outcomes possible now.

[berniepdx420]

14. That's a great question... well except for the last part..here's the answer for you....

The main goal of Bernie Sanders’ decades-long career in politics has been to address the root causes of economic inequality because, as he has stated, “The middle class of this country, over the last forty years, has been disappearing.”

In order to address this, Bernie advocates policies that get at the root causes of these inequities. He calls for expanding the social safety net, creating more well-paying jobs, and reforming systems that perpetuate inequality such as our broken criminal justice system.

The other side of the coin is that the super-rich and multinational corporations have not been paying their fair share in taxes. Bernie proposes removing tax loopholes and tax breaks that only benefit the rich and multinational corporations, as well as raising the rates for the wealthiest Americans. With a tax system reformed in these ways, the financial burden for expanded social safety net programs would be placed on those with extraordinary means.

much more here..
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-economic-inequality/

[TeddyR]

18. Everyone, regardless of income

Should pay the same amount of income in taxes. I'm ok with progressive taxes but not taxes like they have in Europe that take vast amounts of income from the wealthy. Despite what some on DU think, there are rich people who actually worked for and earned their wealth (and I'm not talking about the billionaires). What does a supposedly "broken" justice system have to do with income inequality? What makes it broken? How does fixing the justice system fix income inequality? I don't care who the politician is, I prefer answers rooted in facts, not platitudes.

[berniepdx420]

19. I don't mean any disrespect but may I ask how old you are Teddy ?

[Hoyt]

8. Who was the last person to do it? A very rich man who no one would have guessed would care about

the poor - - FDR. LBJ helped with Medicare and Civil Rights Act.

[ladjf]

17. I'm so discouraged about our rigged Government I can hardly function.

Fortunately, Bernie and most of his supporters still have the courage and energy to keep up the good fight.

[Art_from_Ark]

20. They'll get everyone a job giving speeches to big banks

That'll redistribute the wealth in a big hurry!