Editor,

Bernie Sanders may be “trusted” and he can certainly be trusted to ruin the American economy. He is still a socialist even if he calls himself a “democratic socialist.”

His policies include essentially eliminating the private enterprise system that made this country great. He admires the Scandinavian countries that have some of the highest taxes in the world.

Ask the citizens of Denmark if it is only the top 1 percent that have high taxes. Taxes on everyone would skyrocket under Sanders’ policies including the middle class. He can be “trusted” to have the government run everything.

Thomas D. Smith

Oak Harbor