References present in infographic. Edit: more info [url=https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.cepr.net/documents/ftt-facts-myths.pdf&ved=0CB8QFjABahUKEwjYuvKN0eDIAhWELYgKHct6A04&usg=AFQjCNGNKqcTunOabkyVE7jzdFm2wv9N0g&sig2=1ta9cD6PvdobptP8wfsg7g]discussion of a tax on speculation.[/url] [url=http://www.pnhp.org/publications/united-states-national-health-care-act-hr-676]H.R. 676, healthcare bill[/url] [url=http://www.pnhp.org/sites/default/files/Funding%20HR%20676_Friedman_7.31.13_proofed.pdf]Gerald Friedman, the source misrepresented in pieces saying Bernies plan will severly cost Americans more money, on how the healthcare portion will save us money. (PDF)[/url] Also: America is a form of social democracy with a regulated capitalist economy. If the US were a purely capitalist society there would be no public schools, no Social security, no Medicare, no veterans administration, no workers comp, no park systems....not even public water systems.....you get the idea, nothing owned and operated by the citizens. Everything would be privately owned and operated by wealthy share holders and available on a fee for service basis and priced beyond the means of 25% of the population. That's what a pure Capitalist society would look like. That's not what we have, but that's what the far right wants which is why they push to privatize everything. We live in society with a regulated capitalist economy in which citizens, collectively, provide social services for fellow citizens through the democratically elected government. A Democratic Socialist form of government just like all the prosperous western societies. The far right would have us believe that services provided by the government are somehow un-American when, in fact, the concept is enshrined in the preamble of the constitution: [quote]"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, [b]promote the general Welfare[/b], and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."[/quote]