Luiz, the US has the lowest tax rates of just about any first world nation. Unless rich people plan to up and move to like Cambodia or something, your not going to get lower rates than the US even with what Sanders is proposing. Rich people aren't going anywhere. Are they gonna move to Canada where the tax rate is even higher?
True, that's why as of now very very few people leave the US for tax reasons. In fact, the US attracts tge wealthy from other higher tax countries. My point was that if Sanders had it his way, the US would in fact have far higher taxes than Canada, the UK, or a plethora of other very nice countries. The dynamics would change, for sure.
But all of this is hypothetical, because Sanders stands as much chance of winning as the US does of winning a world cup (in honor of the kid below).
You forget you're talking to the same person who considers the US men's national soccer team to be "a second rate team from a second rate country" despite the fact the country he immigrated from got their ass kicked by Germany 7-1 and the USA barely lost to Germany 1-0 in that same tournament. Furthermore if the USA is really "a second rate country" why did he come here? Not sure what he expected, but compared to Brazil we are excellent. In more ways than one.
edit: yes, he actually said that.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=13349511&postcount=99
I've been waiting quite some time to drop the counter-attack bomb and score yet another goal against Brazil for that comment. That would make the score 8-1. 8 years of Sanders and one year resistance.
USA lost to Germany 1-0 in the world cup, and Germany had the very best team. Brazil lost 7-1 against Germany.
It cannot be inferred our team was "second rate", even if the vast majority of Americans do not care about soccer.
Look, kid. I'll indulge your trolling. Clearly you wouldn't recognize a "soccer" ball if it was put in front of you, but football doesn't work like that. If the US loses by 1 goal to Germany and another team loses by more, that doesn't mean the US is better. During the WC Germany had some pretty bad performances against mediocre teams, then beat Argentina. That doesn't mean those teams are better than Argentina. There is no transferable property in football - that's something fans of the sport learn when they're about five. In every given championship the best teams will some times tie with some bad teams, or even lose, and then proceed to beat some of the best ones and claim the title. That doesn't make those bad teams who got a tie better than the good teams that lost. I understood that when I was five - do you understand it now?
Brazil sucks right now, but it has 5 titles, the US has zero. A single Brazilian player is worth more than the entire US team. One humiliating defeat doesn't change that. The last time that Brazil played the US, just a couple months ago, the result was Brazil 4 x 1 US. So yeah, the WC notwithstanding, I'd say Brazil is the better team, even though it is in pretty bad shape.
BTW, I never said the US was a second rate nation. It is the richest, most powerful nation in the world, and also one of my favorite places (despite a weird abundance of insecure and ignorant people like you, who think you have to be the best at everything). But I live in France now. Not because I got tired of the US, just because I could use a change for personal reasons.
I said the US has a second rate football team. Which is true. According to anyone who knows the first thing about the sport ( so not you). The MLS is worse than second division tournaments in the main football nations. Americans usually can appreciate objective metrics, so just take a look at the total valuation of the US team and compare it with teams that are considered first rate. Voilà.
The US is of course the greatest sport power in the world, and has the very best athletes in stuff as diverse as basketball and swimming. But it's not the best, nor even top rate, when it comes to football, which is not even that popular there. If this assertion offends your hillbilly patriotic sensibilities, well, grow up.