Despite a win in Indiana tonight, it is expected by many that Hillary Clinton will be the Democratic nominee (and likely the president thanks to the likely Republican nominee). If there is one thing I loved during this primary season, it was the defeat of Bernie Sanders and socialism. Sanders and his supporters are some of the most economically illiterate people on the planet. A tsunami of economists and experts in economic affairs (both conservatives and liberals) fired back at them by providing actual logic on how his policy proposals would devastate the American economy.
I thank these men and women who dedicated their lives to an important field of study for the country. To honor them, I decided to assemble this list of economists and link articles in which they went after Sanders. Some of their attacks on him are whole articles while others only disapprove of him briefly when writing about larger topics. I might not disagree with every single one of them, but they all stood united when our country was threatened. Here's a list of these heroes:
Joseph Antos - the Wilson H. Taylor scholar of healthcare and retirement policy at the American Enterprise Institute who has
attacked Sanders' healthcare spending plan.
Leonard E. Burman - director of the Tax Policy Center and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research who published
a study with three other economists showing that the Sanders tax plan would be unable to keep up with his spending proposals, meaning a higher national debt.
Mark A. Calabria - director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute and former staffer of the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs who
does not support Sanders' plans for more financial regulations on credit rating agencies.
Alan Cole - economist at the Tax Foundation who has published
a study on how badly the Sanders tax plan would damage the economy.
Austan Goolsbee - professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School and former adviser to President Barack Obama has signed an
open letter with four other liberal economists blasting Sanders.
Kevin James - research fellow with the Center on Higher Education at the American Enterprise Institute who has attacked Sanders'
plan for free tuition.
Alan Krueger - professor of economics at Princeton University and former Obama adviser who was one of the four that signed the open letter to Sanders.
Larry Kudlow - senior contributor at CNBC and associate director of economics and planning in the Reagan administration who believes Sanders will
bankrupt the country.
Paul Krugman - Nobel prize winner for economics in 2008, professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an opinion writer for
The New York Times who has criticized Sanders' policy proposals as
unrealistic.
Jon Hartley - founder of Real Time Macroeconomics LLC and a
Forbes economic contributor who
addressed the spending proposals in the Sanders economic program.
Steven Horwitz - the Charles A. Dana professor of economics at St. Lawrence University and a member of the Foundation for Economic Education's faculty net work who has attacked Sanders for showing
ignorance on economic issues.
Glenn Hubbard - Dean of the Columbia Business School and economic adviser to President George W. Bush who attacked Sanders' views on
free trade.
Arthur B. Laffer - president of Laffer Associates and economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan who has criticized Sanders for a
tax plan that will not boost growth.
Lawrence B. Lindsey - president of the Lindsey Group, economic adviser to George W. Bush, and a former Federal Reserve governor
argues that Sanders' plan won't solve income inequality.
Lawrence H. Summers - the Charles W. Eliot professor of economics at Harvard University and former Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration who
opposes Sanders' reforms for the Federal Reserve.
Stephen Moore - visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Fox News contributor, and former economic writer at
The Wall Street Journal who
ripped into Sanders' socialism and European examples of his ideology.
James R. Nunns - senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center and former director of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department who worked with Burman on the Tax Policy Center's study.
Mark J. Perry - professor of economics at the University of Michigan and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute who has
debunked claims made by Sanders about CEO pay.
James Pethokoukis - an economics columnist and blogger at the American Enterprise Institute who has
attacked Sanders for his views on capitalism.
Christina D. Romer - professor of economics at the University of California-Berkeley and former Obama adviser who was among the four who signed an open letter to Sanders.
David H. Romer - professor of political economy at the University of California-Berkeley and the husband of Christina Romer who wrote an open letter
criticizing Sanders' economic program.
Frank Sammartino - senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center and former assistant director of tax analysis at the Congressional Budget Office who worked with Burman on the Tax Policy Center's study of Sanders' tax plan.
Thomas Sowell - senior fellow at the Hoover Institution in Stanford University who has
written about how the Sanders economic program will damage academic institutions and society.
Scott Sumner - director of the program on monetary policy at the Mercatus Center and an economics professor and Bentley University who
poked holes in Sanders' economic ideology.
Michael D. Tanner - a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and economic columnist who has
criticized Sanders' healthcare proposals.
Laura D'Andrea Tyson - professor of economics at the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business and former adviser to President Bill Clinton.
Tim Worstall - senior fellow at the Adam Smith Institute and a
Forbes contributor who has
attacked the Sanders economic plan for ignoring guaranteed negative effects.