My experience with Bernie (and it's just me, so take that for what it's worth) is that the more you spend time with him - the less appealing he becomes. And it's not that he's a bad guy - in fact it's just the opposite, he seems like a great hang. I look at it like a timeline:
Day 1 - Yeah, Bernie - stick it to those Wall street A-holes!
Day 20 - This health care system is a mess - someone needs to clean it up. You go, Bernie!
Day 40 - You know, free college doesn't sound half bad. That could solve a lot of problems.
Day 60 - Expanding social security should help people retire better and paid medical/family leave would be nice.
Day 80 - Hmm, all his proposals would cost $31 trillion, that sounds expensive. Maybe he can get that by taxing the rich, though.
Day 100 - Wait, he would increase tax on the non-rich by raising marginal rates, increasing the payroll tax obligation, taxing investments and dividends? I pay some of that
Day 120 - Even if he gets all these increases, it will be $19 trillion short. That has to mean more tax increases he isn’t telling us.
Day 140 - I still don't understand how all this will work, it doesn't seem like any major stuff would get passed but I may still have to pay more taxes.
Day 160 - This guy sucks, he just promises everyone what they want to hear.
