Conaeolos
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Just to be clear I meant it was hard to quantify. The methodology of contrasted averages isn’t reflected in different realities. I 100% agree with the principle, medical costs out pace inflation and why I don’t oppose universal public opinions. My only conflicts there come with public option verses single-payer, but that’s probably a distraction to what’s being discussed here.Or how "medicine is better now than in 1980"... <<<---- ( @Conaeolos )
Really? So if I break my leg in a car accident, it's going to be magically knitted together in five minutes?
I agree that’s a crime on your daughters generation. You say (?) for the lack of opportunity to repay that education or lack of government spending more on education at the costs of other areas. I’d say for ever allowing a loan knowing it wouldn’t work for a plurality of those who took it. Loans increase demand for higher education and allowed more people to make educational investments which because supply was limited pushes higher prices pushing higher loans and reducing ROI for those whom it helps and penalties for those who can’t apply it.my daughter is paying off 48 thousand bucks in student loan debt that did not exist in my time.
So, say in bipartisanship we wipe out student loans. That’s not fixing the problem. We need to sort if the problem is over-education or if indeed the capitalist free market has a way to be improved such that your daughter can have both higher education(which may have been good for her soul) and not be broke. Universal post-secondary education isn’t a solution from my point because it’s a very expensive program that actually lowers tax-revenues overtime. Should I explain?
Walk me through me how this isn’t a choice...She just moved into her first place of her own...at AGE 26. I had my own apartment at age nineteen, and I was paying rent and living on the salary of a dishwasher WHILE going to college.
I am happy to leave economists in ivory towers. I also have eyes, our poor even have massive problems with obesity. 1/6 food insecurity doesn’t pass a smell test. Seems gimmicky. If you mean due to covid-19 isn’t that a side effect of lockdowns? (I support monthly payments like in Canada, but the Republican solution of not locking down makes more sense)It's crystal clear to everyone except "economists" that cost of living is way higher, wages are depressed, and costs of essentials such as healthcare and higher education (latter drives upward mobility) are unattainable by a growing number of Americans, and of course today one in six of us are facing FOOD INSECURITY.
How do you move an average job up in income other than by removing taxes and providing limited subsidized goods and services (education, healthcare, etc). Like I get the basic idea is you tax high income and increase services for everyone. Higher tax though shrinks total wealth so it’s diminishing returns and it reduces income mobility to the top which for me at least is the real deal breaker.