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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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Thanks for the cite to that article. Bloomberg's advocacy of converting to the chained weighted CPI isn't something that I would support either. But the truth is, Bloomberg is first and foremost a pragmatist. My guess is that in the end he would support raising the cap and taxing the rich more--as he has repeatedly done, although it is also true that he does not support the "wealth tax" that Sanders and Warren propose in different iterations. Leading Democrats would have to be true politicians and negotiators to get it done with a President Bloomberg. Someone like Pelosi could do it, IMO. There certainly is nothing in there which suggests that he would privatize SS.

IMHO, Bloomberg would actually be more like FDR than most people suppose. He would, in effect, save capitalism from itself. Most people don't know that FDR was regarded as a lightweight and another spoiled rich kid before he was elected. His party switching shows that he isn't ideological or chained to a party. He actually is what Trump pretends to be--a doer who sees a problem and wants to fix it. Too much sugar in people's diet? Get rid of one of the leading causes of it--sugary drinks. You think a standard R would do that? No way.

That, at any rate, is my POV at the moment.
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