United Citizens against Citizens United! Either way - down with dark money in politics! It must be made a crime to own members of congress, the president, or the Supreme Court.
True. SCOTUS legalized anonymous dark money bribery from ultra-rich untaxed oligarchs, (both foreign AND domestic), all over the world with their 2010 Citizens United decision. (yawn) Oh well, Human history is no mystery because fascism and greed *never sleep.* Authoritarian governments and religions both learned eons ago that *ignorant people are easier to govern* and I believe *that's* the reason why less than 50% of American adults can read above the 6th grade level today.
Maybe it should've been called...Citizens Bane, absolute power corrupts absolutely, "Citizen Kane". Makes you think and wonder why they chose "Citizens United" as the name for it ? Because It has been a serious bane to USofA !
A solution to politicians being corrupted is to make donations solely to a party and having it split between members. Have a bank hold a fund for anti-corruption if someone "has to spend" the money from an envelop (make that fund known and transferable from home.. hide the money and have someone pick it up later) or other scheme to force someone into a bad spot. Call it the ishi fund (make an acronym) I just want to make sure that people remember that a nobody has been fueling these ideas for years and supporting people that know whom to listen and Why (plus it encourages me to become Much Much more whom I want to become for everyone.. unaffiliated is a word for it... incorruptible is also part of it :D. Once that fund is implemented and the new rule is set, start discussing Very openly that politicians will have to have their bank accounts shared publicly with a delay of 2 months to release them. If someone wants to go in politics, they will be slightly purer than the previous generations :) Thank you for considering starting this sh_t show. I will nail that coffin when I'm ready to make "noise" without really taking these whacky mantles you guys are forced to wear. Love ya though! (all of you guys that help keep this man an icon for the future generations).
:D Agreed. The only problem for average American Citizens today, (and average citizens everywhere else throughout history), has been the fact that "Common Sense is a flower that doesn't grow in *everybody's* garden."
Why don't politicians enact the things people want? Because of dark money, lobbying, corporate interests and now, also, the Leonard Leo Six on the Supreme Court, who will overturn any such legislation.
I’ve been a bookkeeper, including payroll, for most of my life. I’ve never understood why there is a cap on income. Everyone should pay the into the system, especially rich people. If anything, people below the poverty level shouldn’t have to pay into it but still able to draw SS and Medicare.
The earnings cap on income subject to Social Security taxation (the SS Wage Base) is a strange thing. Social Security benefits are calculated using earnings up to the Wage Base over a persons’ career. So the highly compensated individuals who earn over the wage base pay a lower SS tax as a percentage of total income and receive lower Social Security benefits as a percentage of career earnings than the average worker does. There is a theory that someone with that much in earnings has the sense to invest and doesn’t need SS as much as a less wealthy individual. That makes some sense. But why not tax all earnings anyway, and continue to limit benefits to earnings not exceeding the wage base ? These well -to- do individuals ought to be able to afford it and the system is projected to go “insolvent” without any changes in funding or benefits.
A corporation is not a citizen. The employees are. Citizens vote and back their candidates with political donations. Corporations should not be allowed to donate to any political cause. Representative democracy in action.
I agree with what Senator Sanders says here. However, Congress can pass any legislation it wants, and the Supreme Court, as it is currently comprised, will come up with some convoluted logic and specious arguments to declare the law unconstitutional.
Yes, at this point, we need to correct this court. Senator Wyden has an excellent proposal to remedy the current court. I am hopeful that the issues with the Supreme Court will be addressed, we’ll get a Democratic Congress and our first woman president.
Senator Sanders tells it like it is. I haven’t heard him say anything I disagree with in years. For example, Medicare is a great program, but the fact that it doesn’t cover dental or vision is costing me a lot of money and causing me to defer getting services I would get sooner otherwise.
So grateful that you are so wise, clear, and sensible, bernie. Oh how i wish most politicians had your sense and compassion. That's a world i'd love to live in.
I hope so. Big money should not be allowed to donate during elections. Make a law to make it illegal. There should also be a law to make it illegal to run false ads on tv or radio, or apps. The ads should be proven for truth. Otherwise, they should not be able to run them. Yes, all rich people should pay more taxes. Also you take social security and Medicare away. There will be many seniors homeless and living in the street.
Get rid of all donations and issues ads then switch to publicly funded elections. If every candidate has the same money they would need better plans. Also term limits would be a good move. If politics was not a lucrative career perhaps we'd get better candidates. America is broken. All of our institutions are corrupt and ineffectual. Its never going to get better with the current political system.
When multi-billionaires become bored after the novelty of their space craft wears off, what do they do for amusement? They buy a politician and in turn, a country.
Why will congressmen, benefitting greatly from the current system, vote for public funding of elections, cutting off their supply of lobbyists and major campaign donations?
More than that. Candidates should not be able to receive contributions from any individual or organization that is not their constituent. RNC and DNC practices of sharing funds is a recipe for polarization.
You have to remember Eichmann called everyone he didn’t like socialist Marxist communists. And sent people he didn’t like to institutional care. And he ran to win the election in the 1930s promising a change in the world. Had democracy of the Weimar Republic resisted the fascist take over, it would have been a very different world.
As was discussed in the video: ending Citizens United and enacting policies to make the rich pay their fair share (this wasn't mentioned in the video but this was historical policy of the US government: even Republicans in the 1950's and 60's supported a tax system which enacted massive tax rates on high-income earners. This did not, contrary to the modern GOP's arguments, result in a descent into dictatorship or economic collapse. Quite the contrary, it exploded the growth of the white middle class and was crucial for funding social programmes that helped millions move out of poverty. In addition to the policies proposed in the video, I think it is also necessary include a comprehensive code of ethics and term limits for Supreme Court Justices, neither of which exist in the Supreme Court today and both have served to make Supreme Court Justices extremely susceptible to bribery and corruption (we tend to refer to what happens with those such as Clarence Thomas as "ethics scandals" but we should call it what it really is: bribery). Not to mention term limits for Senators and Representatives as well as a prohibition against incumbent elected officials using public funds for legal expenses relating to ethics violations and other forms of misconduct. A politician's malfeasance should never be funded with public money or resources.
I’m very pessimistic. I believe they’re in a symbiotic relationship now. Removing one would kill the other, so both would rather fight to the death than change.
Two problems: 1) Economic results are often counter-intuitive to perceived outcomes, and 2) a vast majority of Americans know nothing about economics. Raising the minimum wage to a living wage will send unemployment skyrocketing, just for starters.
You are tackling the problems in a backward way. We all know two seconds after wages are raised everything else sudenly jumps. Start by placing caps on the basics. Rent, medical,and food cost. Go ahead and raise the prices on luxury items to the moon. Place a cap on the basics. This just might slow down the rampant greed that has grown like a cancer in this country.
...and Vietnam has better education in the countryside than the US has in major cities. They had the idea to pay teachers more in places that need the most help in education.
The answer is "we need legislation". Well, yeah, no sh** - wtf u think we've been waiting for you guys to do? That's not an answer, act like you're a sitting Senator and get it done... you're not waiting on us. We're waiting for YOU.
I find it rather amusing about the complaints about big money in politics get rid of it while candidates need YOU to donate to them instead of paying for things themselves. Did Bernie return any donor money when his bid for president failed? Alf course not! How about donor money being gotten rid of! If you can’t pay for it yourself don’t run! Of course no one else including Sanders ever thought of that, Sanders who never gave a crap about helping Poor and getting homeless off the street always blabbering how Middle Class who take for granted everything need constant help!
I'm voting for Jill Stein. If you people were serious about fighting money in politics, you'd be Green. But as long as you vote for Democrats, it's not going to change, because there's no reason for the Democrats to change it while you're voting for them.
Wealth class shill! Some powerfully negative things you’ve said about Senator Sanders: defend them with facts and dates, or crawl back in the hole you came out of! 🦖
Love Bernie Sanders. Left Democratic Party when the ruling elite of the Democratic Party threw the Truth, wisdom, work for we the people, of Bernie Sanders under the bus. Would have been a great President. Also recently fully support RFK JR BRAVE WISE TRUTH TELLER. MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.
CITIZENS UNITED AGAINST Citizens United
United Citizens against Citizens United! Either way - down with dark money in politics! It must be made a crime to own members of congress, the president, or the Supreme Court.
True. SCOTUS legalized anonymous dark money bribery from ultra-rich untaxed oligarchs, (both foreign AND domestic), all over the world with their 2010 Citizens United decision. (yawn) Oh well, Human history is no mystery because fascism and greed *never sleep.* Authoritarian governments and religions both learned eons ago that *ignorant people are easier to govern* and I believe *that's* the reason why less than 50% of American adults can read above the 6th grade level today.
I really, really, really want that tee shirt.
Maybe it should've been called...Citizens Bane, absolute power corrupts absolutely, "Citizen Kane". Makes you think and wonder why they chose "Citizens United" as the name for it ? Because It has been a serious bane to USofA !
@@DemoCATicMAN Republicans are good at coming up with BS names for their fascism.
Thank you, Senator Sanders.
A solution to politicians being corrupted is to make donations solely to a party and having it split between members. Have a bank hold a fund for anti-corruption if someone "has to spend" the money from an envelop (make that fund known and transferable from home.. hide the money and have someone pick it up later) or other scheme to force someone into a bad spot. Call it the ishi fund (make an acronym) I just want to make sure that people remember that a nobody has been fueling these ideas for years and supporting people that know whom to listen and Why (plus it encourages me to become Much Much more whom I want to become for everyone.. unaffiliated is a word for it... incorruptible is also part of it :D. Once that fund is implemented and the new rule is set, start discussing Very openly that politicians will have to have their bank accounts shared publicly with a delay of 2 months to release them. If someone wants to go in politics, they will be slightly purer than the previous generations :)
Thank you for considering starting this sh_t show. I will nail that coffin when I'm ready to make "noise" without really taking these whacky mantles you guys are forced to wear. Love ya though! (all of you guys that help keep this man an icon for the future generations).
'"Corruption" begins and ends
with 'dark pools' of Big Money.
Thank you, Senator Sanders. You give us hope.
Thanks, Bernie, You are my all time hero.
Thank you Mr. Sanders ❤❤❤ I truly believe you are more important than the election 👏👏👏 and I appreciate you
Go go Bernie!
as always...common sense, thanks Bernie
:D Agreed. The only problem for average American Citizens today, (and average citizens everywhere else throughout history), has been the fact that "Common Sense is a flower that doesn't grow in *everybody's* garden."
Monumentally easier said than done.
Bernie Sanders has intelligence, ethics and works for the people and the country.
Bernie Rocks! 💯💯💯💯💯
Why don't politicians enact the things people want? Because of dark money, lobbying, corporate interests and now, also, the Leonard Leo Six on the Supreme Court, who will overturn any such legislation.
We are letting corporate greed shape the world
Thank you Senator Bernie. I more than admire you. Bless you.
Yes, get rid of Citizens United. Yes! Thank you Senator Sanders. You are always the voice of reason.
I’ve been a bookkeeper, including payroll, for most of my life. I’ve never understood why there is a cap on income. Everyone should pay the into the system, especially rich people. If anything, people below the poverty level shouldn’t have to pay into it but still able to draw SS and Medicare.
The earnings cap on income subject to Social Security taxation (the SS Wage Base) is a strange thing. Social Security benefits are calculated using earnings up to the Wage Base over a persons’ career. So the highly compensated individuals who earn over the wage base pay a lower SS tax as a percentage of total income and receive lower Social Security benefits as a percentage of career earnings than the average worker does. There is a theory that someone with that much in earnings has the sense to invest and doesn’t need SS as much as a less wealthy individual. That makes some sense. But why not tax all earnings anyway, and continue to limit benefits to earnings not exceeding the wage base ? These well -to- do individuals ought to be able to afford it and the system is projected to go “insolvent” without any changes in funding or benefits.
Bravo Bernie ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Bernie is correct, once again! Thank you, Bernie Sanders!
A corporation is not a citizen. The employees are. Citizens vote and back their candidates with political donations. Corporations should not be allowed to donate to any political cause. Representative democracy in action.
I'm voting for you. ☺️🙏
Thanks to Bernie reporting on every subject concerning our political Nation👍👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️🙏🙏🙏
I agree with what Senator Sanders says here. However, Congress can pass any legislation it wants, and the Supreme Court, as it is currently comprised, will come up with some convoluted logic and specious arguments to declare the law unconstitutional.
Yes, at this point, we need to correct this court. Senator Wyden has an excellent proposal to remedy the current court. I am hopeful that the issues with the Supreme Court will be addressed, we’ll get a Democratic Congress and our first woman president.
Senator Sanders tells it like it is. I haven’t heard him say anything I disagree with in years. For example, Medicare is a great program, but the fact that it doesn’t cover dental or vision is costing me a lot of money and causing me to defer getting services I would get sooner otherwise.
Yes. Even my rightwing parents like him, LOL. Had he made it to be POTUS, we wouldn't be in such a mess.
God damn right
Bernie you are a good men's and Jesu's love you and I love you to🙏🕊🌹💗
Love you, Senator Sanders, with all my heart!!
I've been waiting 63 years so Goddamn do it already!
I'm a realist and I know it won't happen. Just waiting for the end now.
End big money! End citizens united
Bernie, the man who should have been president!
Now we need to defeat Harris...
@@urrywest No! Convicted felon Don the Con Trump must be stopped!
@@urrywest No! We need to defeat Convicted Felon Donald Trump! Trump was the worst U.S. president in history! We must vote for Harris!
@@urrywest
We need to get the wannabe dictator, Dumpolini, out of our faces. 🔥
@@urrywestNo! We need to defeat Convicted Felon Donald Trump! Trump was the worst U.S. president in history! We must vote for Harris!
PLEASE, Vermont, keep Sanders in the US Senate!
❤ i am with berny
GD right!
Go, Bernie!
Thank you Bernie…
A million times, thank you!
And shorten our election ‘season’. This drawn out, anxiety inducing time is too much.
OMG especially now. 😵💫
I love the fact that this man said, GD LOL.
Kind of like someone else who says 🐂💩 before huge crowds. 😂👍
I love you Bernie. Thank you for not giving up on America. It's getting fixed in the next four years=PROMISE! 💋
So grateful that you are so wise, clear, and sensible, bernie. Oh how i wish most politicians had your sense and compassion. That's a world i'd love to live in.
I know, RIGHT? I can't quit wondering why I'm not in that universe (world) you describe.
I hope so. Big money should not be allowed to donate during elections. Make a law to make it illegal. There should also be a law to make it illegal to run false ads on tv or radio, or apps. The ads should be proven for truth. Otherwise, they should not be able to run them.
Yes, all rich people should pay more taxes. Also you take social security and Medicare away. There will be many seniors homeless and living in the street.
I agree but even if there were a law against it, the evil ones would find ways around it.
Yes I am severely deficient in optimism. 😢
Makes sense to me!
Thank you!
The true leader of the free people 💕💕💕
Unless we remove Big Money, the People have NO voice. Let's take it back.
Which Supreme Court Justice said "Corporations are like people and may contribute to campaigns"? Was it Scalia?
I doubt it. Otherwise they would not have bumped him.
@@alanmorris1828 That depends.
Global Progressive Annual Net Wealth Tax starting at 10 million.
Thank you Senator Bernie Sanders
Love you, Bernie!
Long over due reform needed
Thank you for all you do.
Can he speak about subsidized housing more often? I've heard everything else for a long time now.
Take big money out of politics 💯
Very well said. I don't see you as anything but far-reasonable politician. Not a far-left..
I came for Bernie.!
I'm back for Kamala.
Get rid of all donations and issues ads then switch to publicly funded elections. If every candidate has the same money they would need better plans. Also term limits would be a good move. If politics was not a lucrative career perhaps we'd get better candidates. America is broken. All of our institutions are corrupt and ineffectual. Its never going to get better with the current political system.
One third of the population gets it. Now if the other two thirds would get their heads out of the sand.
Bernie bro FOR LIFE 🎉🎉🎉
Yes, so disappointed that the DNC couldn’t get behind him when they had the chance.
When multi-billionaires become bored after the novelty of their space craft wears off, what do they do for amusement? They buy a politician and in turn, a country.
YES, YES, YES!!! Its about time. Until then we are a democracy in name only.
Why will congressmen, benefitting greatly from the current system, vote for public funding of elections, cutting off their supply of lobbyists and major campaign donations?
Bravo!
Heisenberg
yep
More than that. Candidates should not be able to receive contributions from any individual or organization that is not their constituent. RNC and DNC practices of sharing funds is a recipe for polarization.
Good luck.i agree with you though.
You have to remember Eichmann called everyone he didn’t like socialist Marxist communists. And sent people he didn’t like to institutional care. And he ran to win the election in the 1930s promising a change in the world. Had democracy of the Weimar Republic resisted the fascist take over, it would have been a very different world.
As was discussed in the video: ending Citizens United and enacting policies to make the rich pay their fair share (this wasn't mentioned in the video but this was historical policy of the US government: even Republicans in the 1950's and 60's supported a tax system which enacted massive tax rates on high-income earners. This did not, contrary to the modern GOP's arguments, result in a descent into dictatorship or economic collapse. Quite the contrary, it exploded the growth of the white middle class and was crucial for funding social programmes that helped millions move out of poverty.
In addition to the policies proposed in the video, I think it is also necessary include a comprehensive code of ethics and term limits for Supreme Court Justices, neither of which exist in the Supreme Court today and both have served to make Supreme Court Justices extremely susceptible to bribery and corruption (we tend to refer to what happens with those such as Clarence Thomas as "ethics scandals" but we should call it what it really is: bribery). Not to mention term limits for Senators and Representatives as well as a prohibition against incumbent elected officials using public funds for legal expenses relating to ethics violations and other forms of misconduct. A politician's malfeasance should never be funded with public money or resources.
I’m very pessimistic. I believe they’re in a symbiotic relationship now. Removing one would kill the other, so both would rather fight to the death than change.
Bernie, you're TOO RADICAL!
LOL I love you anyway. ❤😊
Please raise S.S. benefits. I know you, Harris and Walz will help us. Corporations and Medical care for profit are making life diffcult fiancially.
Still lamenting our lost opportunity to have a President Bernie.
Bernie sounds so much less radical than he used to. Yea Bernie.
Great idea!
Two problems: 1) Economic results are often counter-intuitive to perceived outcomes, and 2) a vast majority of Americans know nothing about economics. Raising the minimum wage to a living wage will send unemployment skyrocketing, just for starters.
Found the corporate executive/middle manager that benefits from this system.
It's Bernieeeeeeee Sanders(D)
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J-6
We don't forget!
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No, big money is politics 😊
think bigger. is there a way to give up money?
👍
Step 1: Accept that Jesus is FICTION
Wrong questions!
願你平安
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You are tackling the problems in a backward way. We all know two seconds after wages are raised everything else sudenly jumps. Start by placing caps on the basics. Rent, medical,and food cost. Go ahead and raise the prices on luxury items to the moon. Place a cap on the basics. This just might slow down the rampant greed that has grown like a cancer in this country.
America would actually benefit from a small dose of socialism. Stop the stranglehold of uncontrolled corporations before it's too late.
They don’t allow big money in politics in Vietnam or Cuba. From what I’ve learned.
...and Vietnam has better education in the countryside than the US has in major cities. They had the idea to pay teachers more in places that need the most help in education.
@@aluisious It seems left is best.
And in most democracies as well…educate yourself!
@@christinepark1398Do
You even know where the idea of “left” originated from?
A Socialist politician who became a multi-millionaire says what now? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm confused
The answer is "we need legislation". Well, yeah, no sh** - wtf u think we've been waiting for you guys to do? That's not an answer, act like you're a sitting Senator and get it done... you're not waiting on us. We're waiting for YOU.
Let's start with you, Bern!! Yeah, that's what I thought!
I find it rather amusing about the complaints about big money in politics get rid of it while candidates need YOU to donate to them instead of paying for things themselves. Did Bernie return any donor money when his bid for president failed? Alf course not! How about donor money being gotten rid of! If you can’t pay for it yourself don’t run! Of course no one else including Sanders ever thought of that, Sanders who never gave a crap about helping Poor and getting homeless off the street always blabbering how Middle Class who take for granted everything need constant help!
Oh yeah, go off on a tangent right away when the question is clearly stated in the title. Whatever you do don't answer the question.
I'm voting for Jill Stein. If you people were serious about fighting money in politics, you'd be Green. But as long as you vote for Democrats, it's not going to change, because there's no reason for the Democrats to change it while you're voting for them.
Aluisious- she’s a Russian asset, a third-party vote is a wasted vote
It’s like not voting
Says the guy who owns 4 houses, who eas against millionaires and billionaires, but now that he became millionaire, he only hates billionaires
Your side is about to go down 😮😮🎉🎉🎉
You shouldn't be this proud about advertising your stupidity.
Dream on.
Wealth class shill!
Some powerfully negative things you’ve said about Senator Sanders:
defend them with facts and dates, or crawl back in the hole you came out of!
🦖
So funny Bernie a Socialist /Marxist multi Millionaire. Talking about big money in politics.
Love Bernie Sanders. Left Democratic Party when the ruling elite of the Democratic Party threw the Truth, wisdom, work for we the people, of Bernie Sanders under the bus. Would have been a great President. Also recently fully support RFK JR BRAVE WISE TRUTH TELLER. MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAIN.
With Bernie we could have returned to clasical capitalism and made us wealthy again...
nutjob
#30KforBackPay 🪙 #ZapenForNmb
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