I'm all for the sentiment. Sen. Sanders is quoted saying, "government has got to start working for ordinary people and not just for billionaires." I'd even support his campaign to make that happen. But I disagree that it is enough. It is no more than a first step.
Government needs to stop working for billionaires. Period. I'm quite sure Senator Sanders would never go that far. That's the politics talking, but it's true, anyway. I'm not proposing that he should go so far.
But government has no business promoting the General Welfare of billionaires. They don't need any help. It hurts the General Welfare when government uses policy to deliberately promote the specific personal interests of people who own resources that independently and overwhelmingly assure their permanent, personal welfare.
Billionaires will always profit from whatever government does. It is unavoidable and because of their control of means of production. But billionaires have always found ways to exert inordinate influence on government and reap rewards far disproportionate to their natural advantages.
But government doesn't ever have to work for billionaires; government should get out of that business. Government should see to the General Welfare, working only for ordinary people and, except incidentally, never working for billionaires. The billionaires will be just fine. They always are.
But disagree or not, let's all take that first step with Senator Sanders. It should be taken as basic premise, in 2016, Democratic Party politics, that, as the Senator says, "government has got to start working for ordinary people and not just for billionaires." If America can take that first step, maybe we can take other steps later.