re: #125 Anymouse 🌹

I don’t know about the other two, but Elizabeth Warren doesn’t strike me as “following Bernie Sanders.” I can picture Senator Warren taking Senator Sanders’s idea (which a variant of was also Hillary Clinton’s idea in the Nineties, and even Teddy Roosevelt’s idea), and making actual legislation out of it. (Though the CFPB is under attack from the GOP, it is a good example of what Sen. Warren can do.)

Well, that’s what she did this time. And not for the first time- after writing a letter asking Hillary to run, she withheld her endorsement until the Democratic convention.

As for how the GOP runs against this, the California single-payer bill was estimated to cost $200 billion per year. (California’s entire state budget is about $125 billion for 2017-18.) Extrapolate that to the federal level, and your annual cost is something around $1.5 trillion. (By comparison, all income taxes levied by Uncle Sam raised $1.37 trillion in fiscal 2014.)

One, five zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero, zero zero zero dollars. Per year. Think the Republicans can’t campaign successfully against that? Check the results of elections for the last 40 years.