THREAD: 1976, Bennington Banner. “Bernard Sanders said that the greatest problem facing the nation is that people no longer believe they can take any action to improve the quality of life. Such beliefs come, according to Sanders, through a ‘massive effort of brainwashing.’” 
1976: “Sanders sharply criticized the state’s ‘extremely regressive’ tax structure under which corporate taxes produce only a sliver of total revenues. The public ends up subsidizing the large corporations. 'God didn’t create that rate structure,’ he added.”
1976: “Sanders called for development of worker-control businesses, and proposed that legislation be passed requiring a certain percentage of assets in VT banks to be invested in public programs, particularly in the housing industry.”
1976: “Sanders says, ‘we have no illusions that changes are going to come easily. (We) will not win until hundreds and thousands of people who are unemployed or work for a living get it together into effective fighting organizations to demand that changes take place.”
1976: “When speaking fo these changes, Sanders’ favorite words seem to be ‘logical’ and ‘of course.’ Bernard Sanders has his program crystallized, and it is unlike that being offered by any other candidate."
