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"Get the feds out of education and watch it become affordable again and the need for loans goes away."

Thanks for mentioning getting the unconstitutionally big federal government out of education.

Constitutionally low-information college administrators are milking the feds for all the unconstitutional, vote-buying federal educational dollars that they can imo, making college expensive for everybody.

From a related thread…

"Bernie Sanders proposes U.S. education policy [??? emphasis added] overhaul to appeal to black voters"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

It’s no surprise that misguided, post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Sanders doesn’t seem to understand that the states have never expressly constitutional delegated to the feds the specific power to make policy, regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate educational purposes any more than it does for things like unconstitutional Obamacare.

More specifically, not only did President Thomas Jefferson reflect on the 10th Amendment when he indicated in a State of the Union address that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before the feds could dictate policy for intrastate schooling, but military-related schooling aside, Justice Joseph Story had also indicated that schooling is uniquely a state power issue.

10th Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

So although Sanders’ heart is arguably in the right place, he is unthinkingly trying to expand the powers of the already unconstitutionally big federal government with his constitutionally indefensible campaign promises.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA!