I have the same doubts you have about The Bern. I don't think he will challenge Wall Street or the Pentagon in any fundamental way unless he gets a massive groundswell of public opinion forcing him to do so. Maybe that is why god created the Internet? Could you flesh out your contentions concerning 0 interest Treasury loans for those of us without Economic degrees?
Even people with degrees in finance are kept ignorant of our money creation system and its history. 99% of our money creation is happening in computers, only 1% of it is printed up on Notes. We don't even print the $500 bill any more, its just pocket change for running around town and most of that is happening with your debit card, even paying for the taxi to the airport. So if we have all this electronic "money" ... where does it come from?
The short answer is LOANS. When banks loan out "money" the so-called money is created right there. Once upon a time, the banks would issue a coupon, redeemable for gold or silver, nowadays, its just authorization for a loan. When I did mortgages, the Lender would e-mail authorization to Title for the loan, and the money was created by that authorization. No truck pulled up with bars of silver, no real money is connected to the game, the bank issued the "money" just by saying it existed.
Well, the Treasury is not supposed to be a bank, but it can do the same thing. It can issue money just by saying it exists. But the Treasury is not staffed to do mortgages, so when someone calls for zero interest Treasury loans, that would require FANNIEMAE and FREDDIEMAC to make the actual loans at zero interest (since they were in receivership at the time, aka, the govt took them over, owned them) and to keep all the accounting tidy, you could fund the program through the Treasury, but the whole game pivots around not taking a loan from the FED. Ultimately, all money comes from the Treasury, because the FED derives its authority to create money from the Treasury, the FED even prints its money in the Treasury's mints.
What people do not understand, and what the banks play on their ignorance, is that the banks are creating our money for us. We do not create our own money, all we do is take loans from the banks, the banks create the money when they create the loans. So, when someone says, Treasury loans would inflate the money supply, that is massive ignorance; the same amount of money is going to be created, whether the loan is created by Treasury issue or bank issue, but because the banks want that money (whoever creates the money is owed the money) (aka, whoever makes the loan is owed the loan) they float total lies; rumors in the media, that Treasury issue would inflate the money supply. Actually, bank loans have 100% interest over a 30 year term, so bank loans inflate the money supply twice as much as a Treasury loan.
The damage is already done with our Treasury loans (bonds) written for the whole world. These are not Treasury issued loans to the banks, these are bank issued loans to the Treasury. Talk about slight of hand, the FED derives its authority to create money (remember, the money is created by authorization) from the Treasury, then uses that authority given to it from the Treasury to make loans back to the Treasury; in essence, the Treasury is borrowing its own money(authorization) from the banks. The least the Treasury could do is pay off those loans with its authority, but they don't, they force an illegal personal income tax upon US citizens to supposedly pay for those loans. (that they never needed to make in the first place)