I’m a millennial, a minority, and I only have a high school education, but Im middle class and more well off than most my peers. That’s my demographic. I’m a normal Joe. Bernie Sanders arguments resonance with me naturally but being the type of person I am I need to play devil’s advocate and understand how he is going about what he is planning to do.

On the case of economic inequality the major problem is that … I’ll call it the conservative complex (I’m going to have to define this later) … are fearful/motivated against wealth redistribution without self interest. From what I have seen after a person reaches a certain amount of wealth that persons wealth stops being put to buying produced items. Whats mine is mine and you cant have it, is the force you are fighting when you speak to i’d say 2/3–1/2 of people. So we need to establish motivations.

Taxes usually are not motivations but I believe that tariffs are. The business man does not want to give anyone money so lets make it to expensive for him to export jobs. If he wants to operate globally he will have to reconsitute his whole business in that location, not distribute it, and we can do that with laws. This is very bad for the international businessman but doable and wont hurt Americans. The businessman will lose his work force due to the cost to build externally cost to much and move the jobs back. Also growing company’s cant “escape” to other countries. That builds jobs. This seems rather straightforward but no one seems to be talking about it. So “raise borders to businesses.”

Now is this taking what is someones and giving it to another person? Maybe, maybe not.

On properly taxing businesses to “pay their fair share,” I’m going to some what disagree. Those laws need to be reformed but the overall rate of tax needs to be decently low with a minimum percentage. Businesses need money to operate and we dont want to strangle small businesses, large ones can fry. Why dont I care? Because their growth rates could take a kick to allow small businesses to compete and grow, diversifying markets.

Minimum wage going to 15 dollars I think will work, takes people off welfare freeing up money and need for taxes, but at this point business have taken a major kick in the teeth and are unhappy. For a McDonalds that means doubling the labor force. Thats about nine-thousands dollars lost in profits per week. Some quick dirty research shows that they already spend 33% of their income on wages, raising the wage will hurt business. To keep pace they will have to raise prices as well, or lay off people. If I was a business I’d pass the cost on to the customer, people will be making more anyway, and more people will be customers in general offsetting that.

Fixing ourselves our roads and infrastructure … via taxes,… anyone that has an argument against this I’m not gonna listen to. When my generation was taught about taxes, it was always army and roads, that is what taxes are suppose to go to before roman times. Thats not much an argument.

Getting back to the trade deals, this puts a pinch on businesses. Getting back to that mom and pop shop the cost of food also goes up. Pass it on to the customer who now has a job hopefully.

Then the school stuff paid for by Wall Street, my understanding is that its over estimated. I dont think its gonna last very long maybe a generation as the banks start to degenerate back to normal sizes.

So this is the situation, taxes overall are lower because insurance will be effectively lower by being government controlled. You aren’t paying some companies profit margins every week. The price of everything is up by what ever the company’s wage percentage is to that business, 33% for food. But there are at least half as many unemployed people on the market, that 7% with 5–50% more money for everyone I guess.

I think the economy is slug as it adjust, some industries killed off by law changes and a boom in certain jobs like factory work.

So which is better? Well I’ve been unemployed and I’ve been at the point where you can barely make it, but I was still decently happy barely making it. If we can help more people to get to that point of barely making it then I think good has been done. There are people in america that have no hope of ever getting to the jump off point due to where they where born and the decisions of their parents and grandparents. No fault of their own that they cant go to college get skills and move across the country. Or if they DONT have skills and DONT want skills that they cant take a hard job and that job be stable. Not well paying not convenient, just stable, till they can hop ship.

What I saw going through this recession is that business when they came out alive with policies keeping workers down they kept those works down. They didnt remove the austerity rules and didn't hire more people.

My heart of heart feelings is that anyone that WANTS a job should have a job.