You won't believe the price tag for all that free stuff offered by Dem candidates at the debate

American Thinker ^ | 10/15/2015 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

Any time you get a bunch of Democrats together in the same room, it is recommended that you grab hold of your wallet tightly and lock up the family silver. You also might want to hide your wife and daughters - just to be safe.

The Democratic presidential candidates who took the stage for their debate on Tuesday night tried to outdo one another in rushing to give away tax dollars on wild spending schemes. How much are we talking about? The Washington Times has some thoughts:

The five Democratic presidential candidates pushed proposals in their first debate that would cost trillions in new spending, from free college tuition to single-payer health care.

Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont is the biggest spender of the group, championing universal government-run health care, expanded Social Security and free tuition at public colleges in a platform that The Wall Street Journal estimated last month would cost $18 trillion over 10 years.

The “College for All Act” advocated by Mr. Sanders would cost $109.9 billion in its first year, according to the National Taxpayers Union.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a plan to make college more affordable that will cost taxpayers roughly $350 billion over 10 years, NTU said. Her campaign said it would be fully paid for by limiting tax breaks for certain high-income taxpayers.

The Republican National Committee said Mrs. Clinton proposed $515 billion in new domestic spending over 10 years in the debate Tuesday night, on initiatives ranging from energy to education.

One of the Republican candidates for president, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, called the Democrats’ event Tuesday night “a liberal versus liberal debate about who was going to give away the most free stuff.”

[Da Bilge Troll]

FREE ICE CREAM FOR EVERYBODY!

[MeshugeMikey]

[circlecity]

And remember, whatever a Dem says a program will cost is at least 5 times to low for what will eventually be spent.

[Kickass Conservative]

A Liberal’s Compassion begins and ends in a Conservative’s Wallet.

[jpl]

Yes, the democrats have gone completely stark raving insane.

But it sure would be a lot easier for republicans to make principled arguments against this sort of thing if guys like George W. Bush would stop it with the budget-busting giveaways such as TARP and Medicare Part D.

[hondact200]

That is why I call the First Democratic Debate - The Socialist Debate and the Wealth Redistribution planning Commission. All they want to do is expand Obama’s Programs! there will be more than Hoovervilles in the next World Wide depression - the Muslims will fight for their preceived rights

[COBOL2Java]

But it sure would be a lot easier for republicans to make principled arguments against this sort of thing if guys like George W. Bush would stop it with the budget-busting giveaways such as TARP and Medicare Part D.

Why? You make it sound as if those are things to which Bush & Co. are opposed.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

. . . and we’ll borrow every penny of it from China.

Or the Tooth Fairy. Or something.

[i_robot73]

Just use the CC from China. The same unpatriotic one Dumbo used against Bush

[utford]

And that is based on current cost. Once college is free and the demand goes up, the supply is basically fixed (most colleges can’t expand enough to absorb the demand, at least not in the near term) - so the cost will skyrocket. Basic economics is beyond most Democrats capacity to understand.