Thursday, February 27, 2020

Bernie Sanders's Socialist Vision Has Been Refuted By Reality And History

Sanders touts the proverbial free lunch: a free national health system and free education.

As free lunches don't exist, someone would have to pay for all this-presumably the rich, though Sanders avoids giving specific figures.

Free colleges follow the same rules as free national health care: when the students don't pay, the taxpayers pay for them.

On an ironic note, French colleges try hard to attract Asian students-without much success, because these students don't trust "Free college." In many instances, they are right.

France didn't have enough wealthy people to pay for all the socialist extravagances.

Europeans having learned that socialism does not work, are trying to narrow our gap with the United States with various reforms-just as Bernie Sanders, 50 years too late, seeks to emulate Europe.

Doesn't Sanders know that his program has been applied in Europe, and failed? He must: and this would mean that his true ambition is not free health care or free college, but a deeper transformation of the United States.


https://www.city-journal.org/bernie-sanders-socialist-vision

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