Populist policies aren’t working

By William Moreland, Henderson

Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014 | 2 a.m.

I found the Doyle McManus column in the Nov. 29 edition of the Sun espousing the possibility of Sen. Bernie Sanders running for president interesting.

In the column, Sanders decries the sagging income of middle Americans and recommends raising taxes on the wealthy (who’s wealthy and who’s not is never defined), a much higher minimum wage, a trillion dollars of new spending on new roads and public transportation, and a European-style national health insurance.

If I’m not mistaken, all of these things have been implemented since 2006, right about when middle-class American income began to decline.

Has it occurred to these people that maybe it is the populist policies they support and have enacted over the past eight years that are causing the middle class to lose ground?

Based on the 2014 election results, I think American voters are starting to come to that conclusion.