Bernie the revolutionary, isn’t calling for public pension reform.
That’s business as usual.
All the 25-year-old college graduates with $100,000 college loan debts are going to be taxed up the wazoo so that 15 and 16-year-olds can go to college for free!!
I just don't see this as a winning strategy, unless people are dumber than I think.
It is not a shakedown of the students, it is a shakedown of free market workers. We are just their sheep to be sheared for the government leftists benefit.
Bernie has a much bigger overall problem. He is a communist/socialist and those do not work. And that is what he is trying to sell...of course, under the banner of a “everything free” faux utopian banner.
In general, college has already been dumbed down to accomodate the Affirmative Action crowd and the political correctness that passes for thinking and judgement.
Isn’t that enough?
Imagine what they will be like when every remaining idiot and libtard can just walk into admissions and get their free pass.
In the OLD days, tuition in many state universities was free for in-state students.
No one was crying “socialism” back then, and no actual socialist (like Sanders) was making “free tuition” a centerpiece of his/her program!
Regarding his politicking on ”free” tuition for example, Sanders is unsurprisingly clueless that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified in broad terms that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot ustify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, intrastate schooling not among those powers.
”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.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
“all Americans will have the opportunity to attend public college for free”
Does this ‘opportunity’ for free college mean when you graduate you can freely go forth and prosper or will there be strings attached like being told you have to do some type of community service with your ‘free’ education for a specified time?
someone, other than students, has to pick up the huge cost of the retired professors’ pensions.
Why??
I thought we outlawed Involuntary Servitude, If the government can claim first right to the fruits of labor of the citizenry for the wants of a previous generation, isn’t that in reality a Slave Contract they are trying to uphold??
A ucla law degree costs about $200K. Sound like a lot of money? A first year graduate makes an AVERAGE of $80K. The average salary 20 years out is $190K. Over a lifetime of 40 years of practice, a ucla graduate will earn between $8M and $10M as an average in today’s dollars.
They can pay their own tuition. At $200K, it’s a bargain.