Posted on 04/21/2021 11:58:44 PM PDT by knighthawk
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill Wednesday to make college tuition completely free for families earning less than $125,000 per year – paid for by a tax on Wall Street transactions that would haul in $2.4 trillion over a decade.
Sanders has introduced similar legislation for years, and touted it as a presidential candidate for the Democratic nomination. This time, his proposal comes with Democrat Joe Biden in the White House – and following negotiations of a Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force meant to bring wings of the party together after a divisive 2020 primary.
'In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, a higher education should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few,' Sanders, a Vermont Independent, said in a statement.
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Wouldn’t it make sense to put a tax on college tuition (say a $3,000 per class) and make the class ‘free’?
That would be hilarious given those Wall St scumbags continually vote Rat.
It’s already free for about half the country, you just have to be a part of the right demographic group. This would be just another income redistribution scheme on top of the thousands we already have going. Being unemployed is the best paying gig out there today.
Universities are sitting on a ton of wealth. Billions in endowments.
Not to mention ChiCom money.
Don’t tax wall street. Tax Big hEaD.
Why doesn’t Sanders fund it himself?
Liberals are so willing to spend other people’s money whether they like it or not.
Hmm.... Free poison.
I cannot imagine a faster way to make New York City obsolete as a center of global trade. They’ll all move to the Hang Seng and the destruction of new york will be completed. This is the most stupid short sighted idea i ever saw. Anyone with a single sparking neuron would never try something like this.
It Has to be a deliberately and intentionally destructive action.
That is not fair to those who have paid the full fare. Instead, change the high administrative costs, the salaries of professors, the price of books and the costs of living in the dorms.
Yeah, that would be kinda amusing.
On a somber note, these Rats / Socialists / Marxists / Communists are going to destroy this country.
That seems to be an absolute certainty. There seems to be no end to their crazy ideas.
And the “education” will all be indoctrination in revolutionary communist LGBTQWERTY trans whatever.
It says it would place a half cent tax per trade. For long term investors like me it would have virtually no direct effect yet haul in all this money for the feds. Interesting.
How can they force kids into one’s household after age 18?!?!
This makes college free for every rich kid too.
Fantastik......Free college for all Americans who can delight now in NOT paying for their own brainwashing and leftist indoctrination!
That bill actually is not worth a plug nickel.
Buahahahahahahahahaha!
Could this be a plot Bernie is using in one of his pornography stories? Bernie had the reputation of being very original in his porno plots.
Right. Put every kid through “college” so as to put a final gloss on their political indoctrination.
Did the socialist finally admit that things aren’t free? The Free Crap Caucus is deeply saddened.
Watch the tuition cost rise since the Government is paying. Free indoctrination for everyone. It’s a win win for liberals / socialists.
But... people don’t have to invest their money on anything. What happens when they stop?
Genius... Not.
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