So I'm not alone!
http://www.alternet.org/economy/americans-overwhelmingly-support-bernie-sanders-economic-policies-so-howd-we-end-here
ublic polling tends to support his claim. A Gallup survey from last May, for
example, revealed that a majority of Americans (58 percent) support the
idea of replacing the Affordable Care Act with a federally funded
health care system (including four in 10 Republicans!), while only 22
percent of Americans say they want Obamacare repealed and don’t want to replace it with a single-payer system. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll from
last year had similar results: Almost two-thirds of Americans (64
percent) had a positive reaction to “Medicare-for-all,” while only
a small minority (13 percent) supported repealing the ACA and replacing
it with a Republican alternative. These are surprising numbers when you
consider how the Sanders campaign’s “Medicare-for-all” plan was written
off by critics as being too extreme.
On other issues, a similar story presents itself. Public Policy Polling (PPP) has found that
the vast majority (88 percent) of voters in Florida, Nevada, Ohio,
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — four crucial swing states, three of which
went to Trump this fall — oppose cutting Social Security benefits, while
a majority (68 percent) oppose privatizing Social Security. Similarly,
67 percent of Americans support requiring high-income earners to pay the
payroll tax for all of their income (the cap is currently $118,500),
according to a Gallup poll. America’s two other major social programs,
Medicare and Medicaid, are also widely supported by Americans, and
the vast majority oppose any spending cuts to either. In fact, more
Americans support cutting the national defense budget than Medicare or
Medicaid.
It goes on and on. A majority of Americans, 61 percent, believe that upper-income earners pay too little in taxes. A majority of 64 percent believe that corporations don’t pay their fair share in taxes. Significant majorities believe that wealth distribution is unfair in America, support raising the minimum wage (though perhaps not as high as Sanders would like), and say they are worried about climate change.
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