Bernie Sanders is a Bad Presidential Candidate

The link is here: . http://www.debate.org... "Thank you for accepting this debate. Bernie Sanders is not at all a reliable candidate for the presidential nominee. College tuition for free may sound like a good concept, but then when you think about it, it is not free due to the fact that taxes will dramatically increase. When tuition is free for the younger generation, it is coming out of pockets of people who have already got their college degree and are already high-income citizens. Now looking at religious wise I believe that Bernie Sanders is the definition of a Hypocrite. Bernie voted NO on the senate floor to protecting the pledge of allegiance in schools (SEP. 2004) as well as voting NO on allowing prayer during school after the horrible attacks of 9/11 (Nov. 2001). Not only did he vote NO to these acts, but BERNIE SANDERS IS JEWISH! Not only that, but he urges China to respect freedom of religion which is hypocrisy due to the fact that he won't allow freedom of religion in public schools. Bernie also states that he wanted to raise minimum wage to $15 which is ludicrous and insane! When you raise the minimum wage by that much, you hurt small businesses and companies will lay off workers which will severely increase the unemployment rate. Not only that, but that opens up the door for inflation. Bernie also insists as you mentioned on Racial Justice, however in Feburary of 2008 Bernie voted NO on allowing tribal indians to opt out of federal healthcare which is considered unconstitutional when you consider that all men are created equal. " Have you ever heard the phrase "There's no such thing as a free lunch"? Everything good comes at a cost, both to you and to society as a whole. That's what weighing Pros and Cons is all about, evaluating the cost to society compared to the benefits to it. Some of the highest taxed countries in the world are in Scandinavia (aka the Nordic countries) and in return, the receive the highest standards of living in the world, and some of the highest development rates in the world. Bernie Sanders wants to give all people what he thinks all people deserves: a life worth living. To this end, all of his policies have been successful elsewhere. It irks me greatly how many people confuse the meaning of freedom of religion. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. .. ". In the vote you referred to, where Bernie Sanders voted against prayer in schools, he was defending the constitution. such an act would be in violation of "no law respecting establishment of religion". Also, what do you have against Jewish people? They actually have been proven to be more intelligent, statistically speaking, than Christians. (. http://nymag.com...). And his right to free exercise of religion should not matter. .. and it doesn't, because he's actually an atheist. You see, he's ancestrally, culturally, ethnically, and genetically Jewish (still got the brain bonus) but religiously, he's nonreligious. This is a good thing, because for an atheist, there is no higher law than the Constitution, and no higher power to tell them to do something which would harm the American people, i. e. , 'God told me to do it" no longer works as an excuse. What is the duty of the government? It is to protect and serve the people. It is to raise the standard of living and the national happiness, to the benefit of the people. He believes, and I heartily agree (possibly an arguable subject), that mandatory federal healthcare is a mean to this end. There was no ballot on the table to keep white Americans in such a mold; the law only applied to Native Americans. He stood by what he thought right, and he always does: And there inlies both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness. "I would like to continue this debate by saying Bernie has also done some socially unmoral things like voting against amber alerts for missing kids back in April of 2003. Bernie also wants to isolate this country and the evidence is all there in his senate votes people. Bernie voted to opt out of the WTO (World Trade Organization) back in June of 2000. I'm trying to be brief so i can make this debate more interesting. Hopefully you'll respond" I have not heard of the amber alerts vote, and do not know what the context of that law is. The World Trade Organization was designed to help less developed countries develop, at the expense of more economically powerful countries, which would be us.