Vox founder Ezra Klein thinks it’s more confusing than helpful to think of Elizabeth Warren as a capitalist and Bernie Sanders as a socialist — even though Sanders is a card-carrying socialist and not even a Democrat.
The way the Warren-Sanders difference tends to get framed — she's a capitalist, he's a socialist — is more confusing than helpful.
A better cut is she emphasizes left ideas for growth/competition and he emphasizes left ideas for redistribution/security.
— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) May 2, 2019
“A better cut” is that she’s a lefty promoting economic growth while he’s emphasizing redistribution? Seriously? Warren has promised damn near free everything — universal Pre-K, universal free college, universal childcare — along with the elimination of 95 percent of student loan debt, and she’s going to do it by imposing a 2 percent wealth tax on the wealthiest families in the country.
How is that capitalism or growth or competition?
She just proposed a 2% wealth tax, you nincompoop. https://t.co/sznKZv2LNs
— Cuffy (@CuffyMeh) May 2, 2019
I'd say a wealth tax is pretty redistributional.
— kar nels (@kar_nels) May 2, 2019
Warren’s ideas sound more like redistribution than growth. 2% tax on wealth for those $50M and over sounds like redistribution https://t.co/VtYcVBd4Mf
— Scott Haden (@NomadUNC) May 2, 2019
Please elaborate, because Warren's 2% wealth tax seems like redistribution, whereas I do not know wherefrom Bernie plans to get the funds to do what he proposes.
— it's pronounced "Peker" not "Peker" (@unclepeker) May 2, 2019
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“Redistribution” of wealth (security) IS socialism.
— Lilly@muttrescue (@justme_lilly) May 2, 2019
yes the one thing I always think about a woman who wants to collectivize everything is that she's a capitalist for growth/competition https://t.co/VX8nFPdVEg
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) May 2, 2019
Medicare for all is an idea for growth and competition? That's news to me.
— Best girl Tsukky (@bestgirltsukky) May 2, 2019
Yes, putting the entire private health insurance industry out of business is the perfect example of promoting growth and competition.
Warren's ideas for 'growth and competition' being what? Forcing companies to have a board member elected by the people they pay to work? A wealth tax?
None of their ideas are about growth and competition, every single one of them has at least one aspect about redistribution.— JDL™ (@acceleratingJoe) May 2, 2019
If she’s a capitalist, I’m so far right I make the world spin backwards.
— DangerZone⚠️ (@HighwayToTheDZ) May 2, 2019
There is little difference b/t them. He's a socialist and She's a socialist.
— Populo Iratus (@cmahar3) May 2, 2019
The accurate cut: they’re both one beard shy of being Castro.https://t.co/YMkUZ8DARt
— Will Collier (@willcollier) May 2, 2019
Elizabeth Warren is a capitalist just like Louis Farrakhan's far-right. Moonlighting for the @washingtonpost?
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) May 2, 2019
so they disagree on which bad ideas to propose https://t.co/0QgCPTT9Yt
— Kyle Smith (@rkylesmith) May 2, 2019
So that they both suck has nothing to do with it?
— Don Strutz (@nightwing003) May 2, 2019
We’d love to see “capitalist” Elizabeth Warren in a debate with Donald Trump about growth and competition.
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Um… Elizabeth Warren says just a 2 percent tax on the wealthiest families will pay for free everything https://t.co/IPzst1D5mH
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) April 23, 2019
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