Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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Bernie Sanders is beating Hillary Clinton by a whopping 27 percentage points among Democratic primary voters in New Hampshire, according to a new CNN/WMUR poll.
The Vermont senator leads the former secretary of State 60%-33%, expanding his lead by nearly 20 points since late November and early December, when he led her 50%-40%.
Sanders has been the consistent leader in polls of the first-in-the-nation primary state recently, but this is his largest margin of any poll in the race, according to RealClearPolitics.
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Voters surveyed said they thought Sanders would be better on the economy, 57%-33%, and has characteristics a president should have, 58%-33%. In another troubling number for Clinton, some 55% of respondents said she is the “least honest.” Of the remainder, 36% didn’t provide an answer, while 2% chose Sanders.
A majority — 55% — did say she would best handle the Islamic State threat, but only a fraction — 13% — said foreign policy and national security is the most important issue. Twice as many said jobs and the economy were more important.
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Bob Robbins bought his home in 1995 amid a bout of long-term unemployment. Living with his wife and two kids in a rundown rental in Burlington, Vermont, he wanted to stabilize the family’s housing before his children started kindergarten.
Prospects seemed bleak. The family’s savings had dwindled after his unemployment insurance gave out. But in 1993 Robbins saw a newspaper advertisement for something called the Burlington Community Land Trust. He visited its offices and learned about its generous grants for low-income home ownership. The innovative offer would significantly lower the price by allowing the couple to purchase only the house, while the trust paid for the land it sat on. Within two years, his family owned a home in a small town just to the east of the city.
They’re far from alone. Across the land trust’s portfolio today, there are about 565 other homes that enjoy similar terms, not to mention 2,100 rental and cooperative units.
“We don’t understand why housing isn’t done this way everywhere,” says Robbins, who says the cheaper mortgage allowed his family to save money for college and retirement that otherwise would have gone toward housing. “It’s just such a logical thing to have land owned by a community and the house be your private property to do with as you wish. We’ve just had a terrific life here so far because of it.”
The man largely responsible for this good fortune? Bernie Sanders.
While mayor of Burlington in the 1980s, the democratic-socialist senator and current contender for the Democratic presidential nomination was an early champion of community land trusts. Today, the organization whose creation he made possible—now called the Champlain Housing Trust—is the largest and most influential of its type in the nation.
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