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Edited by Spawn: 1/28/2016 1:46:17 AM
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Bernie Sanders' Economic Policy explained in Destiny Terms

Bernie Sanders' campaign is built on what he and many others call wealth inequality, his entire economic policy is built on addressing this "issue". In an effort to promote understanding of his widely popular policies I will now explain them and how they work within the scope of Destiny. Let's begin.. Commander Zavala's term is finished and elections are in process to select a new commander of the Vanguard. The Speaker tried running but was deemed "out of touch and too old" for this young generation of guardians. In a close election between Bernie Sanders and Cayde-6, Cayde-6's past habits of boozing and womanizing come out after a string of sexual harassment accusations from Petra Venj and Amanda Holliday. Bernie Sanders ends up pulling ahead and winning after this information becomes public. Sweeperbot mounts an unsuccessful 3rd party campaign. Bernie Sanders is sworn in as Commander of the Vanguard and vows to tackle the problem of wealth inequality among Guardians. Wealth in Destiny consists of a combination of exotics, god-roll legendaries, strange coins, and light level (among other things). Let's face it some guardians are much wealthier than others! Bernie vows to fight this wealth inequality "these 1-percenters have way too much wealth, why does a guardian need a last word, a black spindle, and a chaperone? They can't even equip all of them at once!" Bernie goes on to say "I've seen these 1-percenters, some of them have two Twilight Garrisons, Thorns, Party Crashers with rangefinder and rifled barrel, and HUNDREDS of strange coins. How can an up and coming guardian ever attain that sort of wealth when they're only getting 30 or so strange coins a week? These 1-percenters have all the exotics they could ever need and yet they still horde hundreds of strange coins and three of coins, it's not fair!" To make things "fair" Bernie hikes taxes on guardians that have an "excessive" amount of exotics and strange coins, if you have over 15 exotics you are hit with a 45% tax. You must pay the new Vanguard gov't 45% of your exotics or strange coins. If you have 20 exotics you pay a 60% tax on your exotics and strange coins, and if you have 35+ exotics you pay a 75% tax. It's only "fair". The new gov't then begins to subsidize Xur. As a result, Xur now provides two exotics and 10 three of coins a week to underprivileged guardians for "free". Regular guardians notice a spike in prices for exotics from Xur, armor prices rise to 18 strange coins a piece, weapon engrams rise to 25 strange coins, three of coins are now 10, and legacy engrams (a luxury item) come up to 50 strange coins a piece. Guardians who worked hard for their exotics and strange coins are ridiculed for being "wealthy", they were simply "lucky" they had RNG on their side. Never mind the fact that they spent hours raiding and grinding in Iron Banner, their high light level and collections of exotics/strange coins aren't the result of their hard work, they only have all that because of "luck" and it's "unfair". Bernie's economic policy and crippling taxes destroy all the incentive to raid and grind Iron Banner. "Why would I spend all that time and energy raiding when Bernie is just gonna tax and take most of my hard earned loot?" guardians ask. "Hell I could just sit back, pound some beers, and shoot dregs on patrol while collecting those "free" exotics and three of coins from Xur every week" other guardians say. As a result, wealthy guardians leave the tower, swear their allegiance to the Queen, and move to Reef (taking their exotics, strange coins, and possessions with them). Suddenly, no one is left to pay for the expensive subsidies and programs that supply underprivileged guardians with "free" exotics and three of coins. Without the "wealthy" to tax and pay for the gov't programs, these social programs go insolvent and suddenly Xur stops providing goods to underprivileged guardians. Meanwhile since their is still so much debt the higher prices on Xur's goods remain, sparking a revolt. Both the underprivileged and middle class guardians are unable to afford these high priced exotics and three of coins. The remaining guardians have become dependent on government and expect to be provided with something, however, Bernie's new Vanguard gov't is reeling in debt from providing all these "free" goods and services. The people begin to uprise (just like in every other example of socialism) and a coup is organized to oust Bernie from the Vanguard. One morning Bernie is walking outside with his bodyguard and is attacked by Cayde-6, Bernie and his bodyguard both fire their shotguns but Cayde-6 is 10 feet away and just outside of range. Cayde then quickly dispatches both of them from 10 feet away with his 1000YS sniper. Cayde-6 then embarks on a campaign to make the Vanguard great again. Meanwhile, the Reef has transformed into an economic powerhouse where guardians are eager to work hard, take risks, and keep the rewards of their work. The Reef has low taxes but because there is so much wealth their revenues remain strong, couple this with the fact that the Reef doesn't blow money on redistribution and social programs, and what do you know... They're running a budgetary surplus!! Moral of the story: Capitalism > "Democratic" Socialism Rand Paul 2016 ...and if he doesn't get the nomination any other Republican 2016, they're all more economically literate than Bernie! Edit: Lots of people showing love and lots of people hating. To the haters all I gotta say is supply and demand is LAW. Learn it, live it, love it. Bernie sure doesn't... Edit 2: Over-regulation is a bad thing. In Destiny terms, was Destiny better when it first came out or after all of Bungie's various nerfs and buffs? I think we know the answer... Edit 3: This post sure got crazy, kinda like Bernie Sander's economic policies. For all the haters I have one statement, supply and demand determines value. This is an irrefutable economic truth. Bernie's policies attempt to assign value in opposition to supply and demand. That is why his policies are guaranteed to fail. To everyone that showed some love, YOU ROCK!!

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  • I think it's funny that people feel so entitled to what others have worked for. What a bunch of curly headed f**ks. I certainly didn't do 4 yrs of college, 4 yrs of med school and 5 yrs of surgical training to pay for Pablo and Juanitas 12 kids to go to college because they lacked foresight.

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    • What a horrible comparison. Exotics are possessions not a currency . And it's kinda dumb comparing a video game to real life situations.

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    • Cruz 2016!

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      • Great analogy. To those opposed, how do you fail to see it? Too close to home?

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      • bernie sanders. more like socialist who shouldnt even run for president

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      • Edited by Snow: 1/28/2016 12:29:35 AM
        This is stupid. The highest tax spike is if you make over $10 million, which increases from 39.9% to 52%. So many people are uninformed. I do like Rand Paul as a Republican Candidate though, so we can find some common ground.

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      • All I will say about this... Since I can't have a legitimate debate, without disturbing those with words they don't want to hear.. Bernie supporters are intelligent enough to realize they want free stuff, but not intelligent enough to realize that free stuff doesn't exist. Someone always has to pay for it, but anyone who doesn't believe in a free market capitalist society, but supports Bernie from their $1000 iPhones, has got to be pretty stupid... Also, The great thing about Bernie supporters is that you always know that if you are losing an argument, there is always a question they can never truly answer: How do you pay for it? They will say taxing the top 1% and cutting military spending. But reliable estimates price Bernie's policies at about 18-19 trillion dollars in addition to the debt we already have. To use a ridiculous example, if you were to tax the top 1% at an astronomical 100% tax rate and cut every single dime of military spending you wouldn't even come close.

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        • I think I heard the Bernie see video games as a luxury item for the privileged class and want to impose a 400% tax

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        • Don't vote people! You're just encouraging them.

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        • My god... This is, without question, the single greatest post I've seen since Xylar the Timeless. His cracked me up! I'm an economics major, and extremely terrified of what would become of the state of our economy if the Bernie Sanders fad doesn't come to a screeching halt. Glad to see some people just get it in life. Thanks for the good laugh!

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          • This is why I'm conservative.

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          • In the words of Jim Carrie. B-E-A-UTIFUL As an economics major this made me laugh so hard.

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            • This is -blam!-ing brilliant. A man chooses! Rand for president

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            • Finally. Someone who understands. People cite the Swedish system for healthcare, but that is RUN BY PRIVATE COMPANIES. It's nothing like what Bernie is proposing.

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            • You cannot compare sander idea to destiny to the present economy situation. In destiny, everyone started from the BOTTOM, no one start OP and has like max light and level already but in our economy, that not the same. Unless everyone is born in the same class and are given the same chances, you cannot compare it the economy. Exotic drops are random and you can grind them like everyone else did or exploit a loophole In the system like pretty much what billionaire who con people and put many people in debt are doing to stay out of jail. Let use an example, Donald Trump, he said he had it rough and took a small loan of a million dollars but let's translated to currency in destiny and of course you cannot translate to glimmer cause max glimmer is 25000 so we can assume it is strange coins or marks. Because he had so much access to these funding , he was able to buy armor and items to get him high light and get people to help him do the raid. Think about, would you help a 267 through the Kings fall raid or would you do a raid with a guy who is 300 light. That what bungie is doing now with micro transactions, giving people who buy these small purchases more special armor or stuff which may or may not do a lot but it does increase drop of rare items during the SRL racing with the race book. Unless people are starting at the same point, the bottom and living through it, you cannot not say it a equal start to finish.

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            • This has nothing at all to do with Destiny. Move it or I'm reporting it.

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            • This thread should be renamed: Logical Fallacies 101.

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              • Edited by Baja Blast: 1/27/2016 11:24:49 PM
                My coworker is worshiping Sanders. Another one is kissing Hillarys feet. I don't talk about politics, but i'm leaning towards Paul or Cruz. Whenever anyone asks me, I always say Trump to start an argument. God speed, guardians. May RNG be ever in your favor.

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                • To sum up: Economics 101 Less/lower taxes = vibrant economy, more personal wealth and more government "revenue," more people tend to voluntarily pay taxes owed More/higher taxes = stalled economy, less personal wealth, less jobs, less investing, more people tend to avoid paying taxes owed

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                  • Oh man I loved this post and then you hit me with a rand Paul endorsement. You sir are a guardian I would love to raid with

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                    • This post is brilliant and completely true. Seriously... best thing I've read on the internet in a long while.

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                      • Edited by Meridia: 1/27/2016 11:07:58 PM
                        Best thing i've read all day. This brought tears to my eyes.

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                      • Bernie is practically a damn socialist. Shared wealth has never EVER worked in history. Ever

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                        • Are those taxes per account, or are they applied per character on the exotics and strange coins they're holding?

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                          • Skipped to the end. Saw 'Rand Paul 2016'. Glad I skipped all that nonsense Bernie 2016 fool

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                            • Lol so accurate

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