You can explain this till you are blue in the face. Sanders’ supporters won’t understand this until it directly affects their pocket books. And by that time it’ll be too late and Sanders will be long gone. And it’ll be somebody else’s fault.
Further, if Sanders were to be elected and instituted ‘free higher education’, guess who would be screwed once the first of the ‘free education’ folks graduated and come into the job market? That would be today’s youth who racked up education debt that on average eats up $4,000-$5000 a year on repayments. Unless Sanders is going to cancel ALL education debt(which he won’t) the new grads will displace their indebted competitors because they will be able to do the same job for $4,000-$5,000 less a year without a loss in standard of living. Don’t think this will/would happen? Think H-1B visa workers displacing American workers now. People from places such as India who have no education debt replacing high-tech American workers now.
Yep. Free college, free healthcare, free housing (I’ve heard this), etc. - all attainable but non-existent because of the evil 1%. It is all they hear. Rinse, repeat. They’re ignorant of the fact that the majority of tax receipts are already paid by the top 10%.
The best way to make something more expensive is for the government to make it “free”.
Crazy.
Whereas I understood it as soon as Obama took Federal control of student loans in his first SOTU speech.