This column was far too long. It could have just said "Bernie's plan is, everyone should give lots more tax money to the government and they'll take care of everything." Except it won't work - you can't cherry-pick the best parts of capitalism and mash it together with socialism and get a stable system. He can either go full socialist (in which case we end up like Venezuela), or he can go full Democratic Socialist (in which case, there goes his unions, his business regulations, his minimum wage and the other worker protection plans), or he can admit that capitalism is the system that provides enough prosperity to even raise questions like this (in which case he's admitting his ideas are nuttier than a fruitcake).