Mike Darner
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@mikedarner
Executive Director for @USProgressives. Views are my own.
Senator Rand Paul researched and found that everything Bernie Sanders and AOC have been saying about their views for socialism have been an outright lie This is very important information “Democratic socialists like Bernie Sanders often point to Scandinavia is the model for what the U.S should become — When (Bernie Sanders and AOC) talk about democratic socialism, (Bernie Sanders says) ‘I'm not looking at Venezuela, I'm not looking at Cuba. I'm looking at countries like Denmark and Sweden’” But that’s just not true Rand Paul “We learned that actually Bernie is too much of a socialist for Scandinavia, that he probably could not get elected in any of the Scandinavian countries — When he started talking about Denmark being socialist, the prime minister of Denmark came out publicly and said, Bernie, quit it. You're, you're bad for business. We are not socialist. And if the rest of the world thinks Denmark's socialist, they won't come here and invest money. Denmark is far from socialist planned economy.” Not only is Denmark not socialist, but the other countries Democrats point to as examples are very wrongly depicted “We found that basically it's not true that the Scandinavian countries are socialist. Basically they have private property, private stock exchange when different freedom or economic indexes are listed. They're in the top 10 of the most free countries. Now, they do have a big welfare state, but we also learned that what Bernie promises and what AOC promises in our country is untrue. They say, we're gonna have a lot of free stuff that a socialist state gives you, but only the rich people are gonna pay for it. Only the top 1%. Turns out when you look at Scandinavia, everybody pays for it. - Particularly starting at the working class, paying a 25% sales tax - Then an income tax of 60% starting at 60,000 - And really the rich in our country pay a lot more. — The rich pay a lot more in our country than they actually do in Scandinavia. So his whole stick it to the rich, you know, thing that he's promoting isn't true in Scandinavia. He says, in our country, the corporate income taxes, the evil corporations aren't paying enough. Well, guess what? In Scandinavia, there have been 15 points below our corporate rates for 2 decades” Meaning, it’s the working class who would ultimately pay insane taxes for Democrat’s plan for socialism “It's sad that people still think Scandinavian countries are socialists.“
Thanks for yet another great town hall! I had such a great time speaking with @AnaliliaForNJ and grassroots advocates about the race for #NJ11 and what it'll take to clean up Washington.
In a phone interview with NewsNation on Sunday, President Trump says any deal to reopen and fund the DHS should not be made unless the Senate votes to pass the SAVE America Act.
