The Middle Class Will Pay Bigly For All The Dems’ ‘Free Stuff’

Issues & Insights ^ | 6/25/2019 | The Editorial Board

[GailA]

All those going into professions that are scarce in rural areas should be able to get half their college cost written off if they SERVE in those Rural communities for 5 yrs.

Bring back Apprenticeships or Internships too. More trade schools. Our grandson turns 18 in Oct and he’s looking into trade schools already. We’ve a 2 yr JR College the State will cover as long as it is IN state. Teaches electronics, med tech, auto, HVAC. etc. He’s worked since he’s been old enough to do so. Pays his own phone and car ins. Car is 25 yrs old, still runs. It was mine, then his dad’s, now his.

[bgill]

I figure I’m paying 50% of income to taxes. Property tax, utility and services taxes, general sales taxes, gas tax and vehicle licenses and tags are taxes. Add in hidden extras that our health and auto insurance charges us because others don’t have it and we’re over 50%.

[bgill]

We did the same. Schmucks R Us. I’m guessing Bernie won’t be reimbursing us for our paid in full out of our own pocket college expenses.

If we’d invested that money, we wouldn’t be living in a dump, driving old vehicles, down to one pair of jeans and limiting food to $5/day and having enough to get the surgeries we need.

[ridesthemiles]

let the institutions holding the debts sue colleges and universities for some portion of their losses.”””

Obama moved the school loan debt from the local bank that knew your family to the Federal Government. He created a whole new bureaucracy to ‘handle ‘ those loans. They are beyond inept. Friend has her loan payment deducted automatically from her bank account. Since Obamaloans took over, she has had to go into bank with evidence at least 2 times a year & get proof of every payment being made timely & then get that info into the head of the local Obamaloan representative. It is a giant hassle for self employed person.

Other reports here on FR indicate that the money from those loans is being used to pay current Federal Pensions.

IF that is so, apparently, no one has informed Bernie of this. I don’t think Bernie even balances his own checkbook. He isn’t smart enough.

The constant drumbeat that you will never be successful unless you go to college isn’t true, and it isn’t helping this problem.

[ridesthemiles]

The Dems cannot stand that Trump gave out all those tax cuts. They are trying to find any & all ways possible to keep draining the taxpayer’s pocketbooks.

This isn’t going to end well.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Bernie says "Wall Street" will pay for it.

You are going to hate this, but that is going to resonate with the vast majority of people in this country.

What Bernie actually said was that the American middle class bailed-out Wall Street in 2008, and it's time for them to return the favor. He is not factually wrong, and mostly you'll find heads nodding in agreement.

That is the REAL damage inflicted by the 2008 bailouts. It surrendered the moral high ground against telling anybody else they can't have one.