Bernie Sanders isn't a Denmark like socialist

In the past Denmark and other northern European countries like Sweden tried a socialist model like the one that Bernie is espousing.

It was an unmitigated disaster.  From 1970 to 1995 the Swedish economy didn't generate a single private sector job.

As a result countries abandoned what Bernie wants and became more like what Trump wants.

For example Sweden has twice as many billionaires per capita as the US does.

Did you know that in Denmark the top 10% pay 26% of all taxes, in Sweden it's 27%?

That's very Trumpian and very much not what Bernie wants since today in the US, where Bernie wants to raise taxes on the rich, the top 10% pay 45% of all the taxes.

To make America like Denmark, as Bernie says he does, Bernie would have to lower the tax rate on the rich.

Don't see that happening.

The reality is that Bernie is a socialist in the mold of Venezuela, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. He wants you to work hard so he's got money to spend on himself, you do know that Bernie is in the 1% right?, and on his supporters.

Like most leftist Bernie eschews giving his own money to help the poor. In 2016 Bernie made $1,062,626 and contributed $10,600 to charity.  The average American who made more than $250,000 that year gave $21,365 to charity.

So Bernie who wants Black plumbers to pay for free gender studies degrees for rich white kids gave far less of his own money to those in need than the average American.

But that's understandable; he needed the money in 2016 to buy his third home, a $575,000 lakefront home in Vermont.

Since then his charitable giving has gone up to a maximum of 3.38% in 2018 which is still far behind what good Christians are called to give, 10%, and which seem rather low for a man who is demanding that you give him more of your money so he can help the "poor".