Prosperity for the CEO's anyway. Nobody else gained anything from the so called prosperity (besides longer working hours for less real wages), and he explicitly said he wouldn't raise the top marginal rate to 90%, but at least enough that CEO's don't pay less in taxes than everyone else.
Also Sanders is leading in New Hampshire and closed the gap in Iowa, so he certainly has a shot like Obama.
"Everyone is sick and tired about Hillary being the guaranteed nominee." Bee was behind close to the same percentage to Hillary at this time like Bernie is behind now to Hillary, yet we know how that went down with bee.
The wealthy did profit more from American prosperity in the last decades, there's no denying that and it is unfortunate. However, two important things should be noted:
-Since the 1980's, the US has done better than the rest of the developed world. The US has not experienced the unending stagnation we see in Japan, nor the massive youth unemployment we see in much of Western Europe (and I'm not talking of basket cases such as Greece, but of powerhouses like France and Italy, to say nothing of Spain).
-The solution is not to blow up the entire edifice that has generally worked pretty well. Anyone who says so many bad things about the American economy or the state of American workers must be pretty ignorant, and deserves suspicion at the least.
As for Sanders closing the gap... yeah, right. Hillary has what, twice the polling numbers of Sanders on the primary? Not to mention an endorsement gap of something like 450 x 2... give me a break. It doesn't take Nostradamus to call this one.
90% tax rate? Worker ownership? Haha, whaaaaat? Where are you getting this from?
From Sanders' statements themselves. On workers' ownership, he said exactly the following: " "I believe that, in the long run, major industries in this state and nation should be publicly owned and controlled by the workers themselves."
I would never vote for someone who made such a moronic statement, no matter how long ago, unless he specifically backtracked and conceded it is a disastrous idea. Anyone who thinks that's the way to go is an idiot, and therefore unfit to lead.
Who would leave the U.S.? Americans love America, especially rich Americans. They're not going to come to Canada, the closest thing on the planet to America. People always say they will, but then they never do.
So where would they go instead? Do you see Donald Trump moving to France? Maybe to the UK, I guess, but I think most rich Americans just damn love the place. They're going to stay, maybe re-distribute their assets a bit depending on what happens, but nobody's going anywhere. Most of the richest already use tax loopholes and offshore accounts and schemes and whatever else to pay as little in taxes in the U.S. as possible anyway.
The rich aren't leaving the country. That's just stupid-talk.
Hordes of rich people have left France, a much nicer country than America, because of tax rates lower than those Sanders endorse. So yeah.