Donald J. Trump is in a league of his own when it comes to keeping or earnestly seeking to keep most of his campaign promises. Anyways, Bob, your misgivings towards Bernie Sanders are justifiable. We privilege class people as well as hard-working middle class folks would pay dearly if Bernie Sanders were to significantly deliver on his promises of student loan debt forgiveness, tuition-free colleges, paid family leave, slave reparations, reliance on mostly green energy, open borders, Medicare-for-all as well as single payer dental and vision care insurance,.
Back in 2015, Bernie Sanders had proposed $18 trillion of new government spending over the course of a decade. I suppose the cost of all his proposed new government spending programs by now has probably doubled to $36 trillion over the course of the next decade. ...
Price Tag of Bernie Sanders’s Proposals: $18 Trillion
Of all the Democratic 2020 presidential hopefuls, I like Andrew Yang the best. However, I believe Yang's ideas are a bit ahead of our time. I doubt our nation would be ready for his proposed 1K monthly universal basic income benefit, 10 percent Value Added Tax, and universal health care beginning in 2021 at a time when there is full employment. However, I do believe Andrew Yang's proposed 1K monthly universal basic income benefit, 10 percent Value Added Tax, and universal health care system might become what our nation greatly needs beginning in 2026. when millions of people's jobs have been replaced by automation.