[LucianOfSamasota]

What if, instead of proposing policies geared towards individual middle-class tax-payers that revolved around the assumption that higher education was an individual’s responsibility, the president instead proposed policies geared towards embedding higher education as an individual right. What if, instead of getting a tax write-off after you’ve already paid your son/daughter’s tuition, you instead didn’t have to worry about education because the government would pay for it?

But who pays for the government?

I want to take the socialism critique first. The reality is that even here we routinely spend a significant amount of our government’s resources on subsidies, on what tea party supporters might call “socialist policies.” For instance, in 2009 the government spent almost $86 billion on home ownership subsidies in the form of the mortgage interest deduction, subsidizing the home purchases of almost 35 million citizens. In 2010 the government spent almost $104 billion.

These guys can never see the difference between allowing one to keep a bit more of what he has earned, and a gift of money not earned. When you never contribute anything to society, I guess your sense of value diminishes.

[RipSawyer]

“When you never contribute anything to society, I guess your sense of value diminishes.”
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