Private companies are in fact accountable to market forces and consumers who look for their own best deal, but certainly many functions need to be public.

I am not against private schools in bad districts. (Where do the wealthy democrats in DC, including the president, send their kids?)

I do not support public employee unions (Who is the union "protecting" the workers from?).
Private companies are in fact accountable to market forces and consumers who look for their own best deal, but certainly many functions need to be public.

The financial crises in nearly every states is a direct result of over-promised, under funded defined benefit pension programs.

Our immigration system is broken and laws on the books are purposely ignored. Should we just rescind immigration laws? What's your fix?

Accountability seems to be on the back burner to the public sector workers.
Another EPA scandal in Flint after the fiasco in Colorado.(A corporate officer would have been jailed)
Another IRS hard drive erased 3 days ago after a federal judge had ordered it preserved.(How many is that now? A corporate officer would be jailed)

"The financial crises in nearly every states is a direct result of over-promised, under funded defined benefit pension programs."

Ohh shit!

Poor and Lower Middle Class getting an instant tax hike of 30+%...

WOW how can that happen!?!

Ohh shit!

Poor and Lower Middle Class getting an instant tax hike of 30+%...

WOW how can that happen!?!

If you add these taxes to the existing US tax code — including the income tax, Social Security payroll taxes, Medicare payroll taxes, and additional Medicare taxes added by Obamacare — you get the rates in the chart above. Most taxpayers would see a single-digit increase in their marginal tax rate. People with taxable income below $250,000 would see an 8.8 percentage point increase.

For the very richest Americans, with more than $10 million in taxable income, Sanders's proposal would produce a 77 percent marginal rate. That's not unprecedented — under Dwight Eisenhower, the top income tax rate was 91 percent — but it's higher than the top rate at any point since 1964.

Now, marginal rates aren't everything. Most people wouldn't see an actual tax increase of 8.8 percent, even if their marginal rate goes up that much. Effective tax rates — the amount you're actually paying as a percentage of income — also depend on deductions and credits.

Craig Fry posted
overall, it is just a bunch of delusional libertarian talking points

They are my own opinions. Just as valid as yours. None of this is science. If it was you could disprove counter factuals. Not possible.
And dismissing someone's opinions as "talking points" could be considered projection considering your overwhelming partisan positions. NTTAWWT :-)

I won't say you are guilty of "crazy talk", that any of your statements are "Pure BS, or "delusional".
You own those ad hominems.

I brought up immigration because it is a current issue, no? What's the fix, unless it makes you uncomfortable to say.
I post as much to have my idea's challenged as to practice the art of debate.
Can't say I take any of it as serious as you, but I respect your passion and understand your stances.
Fewer ad hominems would bolster your creds. Just sayin.

Democratic socialism is but a way step on the path to a fascist communist or dictatorial communist state.

I won't say you are guilty of "crazy talk", that any of your statements are "Pure BS, or "delusional".

You know Ronald Reagan was the President of the Actors Guild, Ironic.

Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO affiliated Screen Actors Guild. And he even served six terms as president of the organized labor group. Additionally, Reagan was a staunch advocate for the collective bargaining rights of one of the world’s most famous and most influential trade unions, Poland’s Solidarity movement.

public pensions bankrupting states