Hillary Clinton’s campaign announced plans on Wednesday to eliminate college tuition at in-state public colleges and universities for families with annual incomes under $125,000 — a significant nod to a core position of Senator Bernie Sanders, who had pledged to make tuition at public institutions free for all students.
While stopping short of Mr. Sanders’s vision, the proposal is likely to hearten the senator and many of his supporters, as aides to Mrs. Clinton work to unite the party before the Democratic National Convention on July 25-28 in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Clinton’s team is eager to attract the young supporters that flocked to Mr. Sanders in the nominating fight, and a campaign aide noted that during her meeting last month with Mr. Sanders, the two discussed the merits of their plans to make college more affordable and the importance of featuring the issue prominently in the general election.
As part of the her package of proposals, Mrs. Clinton, who speaks often on the campaign trail of her plans for debt-free college education, is calling for a three-month moratorium on the repayment of federal student loans.
Hillary Clinton Embraces Ideas From Bernie Sanders’s College Tuition Plan
Wow. So she got that idea from Bernie?
Wonder where he got that idea from?
Europe, that's where - every EU country offers free tertiary education. Every damn one, all 28 ...
Regardless, it's easy to spend other people's money. .
Hillary Clinton Embraces Ideas From Bernie Sanders’s College Tuition Plan
Wow. So she got that idea from Bernie?
Wonder where he got that idea from?
Europe, that's where - every EU country offers free tertiary education. Every damn one, all 28 ...
NB: Next step, Universal Health Care - which will put America on a par with the EU. Finally, 22 years after "Harry and Louise". After all, why not, if Congress gets a total Health Care package free, gratis and for nothing ... ?
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The usual promises of more "free" stuff without any mention of how it would be paid for - and yes, the public colleges and unversities will still exect to get tuition funds for each and every student that they enroll up front. Sanders at least was honest enough to say he would raise federal taxes to pay for 2/3 of it and stick the states wth the obligation to pay for 1/3 of it if he could make college tuition "free". I wonder how those that elected to joint the milltary to get a college education benefit, or those that borrowed money to pay for their college, feel about this "just give it away" plan?
Just what we need - another means tested benefit! :dohHillary Clinton Embraces Ideas From Bernie Sanders’s College Tuition Plan
Wow. So she got that idea from Bernie?
Wonder where he got that idea from?
Europe, that's where - every EU country offers free tertiary education. Every damn one, all 28 ...
NB: Next step, Universal Health Care - which will put America on a par with the EU. Finally, 22 years after "Harry and Louise". After all, why not, if Congress gets a total Health Care package free, gratis and for nothing ... ?
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well maybe not so easy. Don't forget, for liberals to spend other peoples money they first have to take it from other people at the point of a gun. Violence is always the liberal way. No wonder our liberals spied for Stalin when he was slowly starving to death 60 million and no wonder Sanders honeymooned in USSR.
Hillary Clinton Embraces Ideas From Bernie Sanders’s College Tuition Plan
Wow. So she got that idea from Bernie?
Wonder where he got that idea from?
Europe, that's where - every EU country offers free tertiary education. Every damn one, all 28 ...
NB: Next step, Universal Health Care - which will put America on a par with the EU. Finally, 22 years after "Harry and Louise". After all, why not, if Congress gets a total Health Care package free, gratis and for nothing ... ?
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Eurosclerous, good term, I like it.
Regardless, it's easy to spend other people's money.
Depends upon what you mean by sclerosis.
How about this definition: sclerotic Income Disparity in the US; which is incarcerating 15% of American men, women and children - 45 million people - below the Poverty Threshold ($24K per year, family of 4) since 1965 half-a-century. (Btw, that's the population of Texas and New York combined.)
Open your sclerotic eyes, and see here from the Census Bureau:
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Yeah, especially if you are a DoD contractor. Is that your "fate in life"?
Then I can understand why you like sucking at the Federal-budget teat ...
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scle·ro·sis
skləˈrōsəs/
nounMedicine
noun: sclerosis; plural noun: scleroses
- 1.
abnormal hardening of body tissue.
- see multiple sclerosis.
- 2.
excessive resistance to change.
"the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis"
PRATTLE
Income Inequality is measured simply by the Gini Index, and more complexly by the Census Bureau.
Which simply means people like you do NOT want to believe the truth, because it is far too uncomfortable. So, of you go on a spurious track that seems to give you an escape.
You are swimming against main-stream economics. So here is a bit of serious economic analysis, cross-country from the OECD*.
Meaning applying the same rule to multiple countries (more than thirty in this case) to see how a given quotient (for instance, Income Disparity or Relative Income Poverty) stacks up amongst them. Be my guest, here OECD Income Inequality:
*Scroll down to the "Compare your country" infographic on the right-hand side.
*Then select USA, and see where the red-line pops-up. Fifth from the right on most Relative Income Poverty! Wow! (The top being our southern neighbor - and Trump nemesis (Meh-hi-ko) - which has the worst of any OECD country.)
*Select, ummmm, high-taxation France, sixth from the bottom in Relative Income Poverty. Wow, again!
Now, please prattle your way out of this one. Show us how the OECD has got it all wrong too ...
*OECD = Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development
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So your proposed solution is to have the government enforce punitive penalties on being successful?
Since Europe has what even Krugman calls Eurosclerous (sick economies) we should do the opposite of what they do, obviously. How odd Silicon Valley is in USA not Europe where everyone is on the dole or trying to get on it. Let's have a 30 hour work week and make it impossible to fire a bad employee!!!
You call them "penalties" and I call them "the cost of participating in a collective market-economy". We are looking through different prisms at the same animal. Called a "market-economy".
How many millionaires do you know became so on a deserted island? The collective of people is far more important than any individual in any market-economy. And when push-comes-to-shove people like you are the first to raise Ole Betsy up the flag and cry in unison for the Collective Defense of the "Our Nation's Values". (Why? Because war is good for business!)
We cannot agree on that simple POV - that is, the importance of the collective in any Social Democracy.
That's fine, the world is not coming to an end either ...
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You appear to be from a Social Democracy, where as I'm from a Republic.
I live presently in the fifth Republic of France (since 1792), run by a socialist government, that is plainly social-democrat in nature.
It's motto, since 1792, has always been "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité".
Underline Egalité, which in English means "justice, absence of discrimination, fairness".
You THINK you live in a fair country. The stats show otherwise ...
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Life isn't always fair. While a Republic may claim to make it so, it's not possible for a government to dictate outcomes.
It is almost never fair, since most of our "lifestyle" is decided by a market-economy (of free exchange).
Which is why governments have the duty to intervene, to assure that the most good is done for the most people.
And not just a select few ...
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So your proposed solution is to have the government enforce punitive penalties on being successful?
Better yet - we shoot anybody and everybody who has a Net Worth of more than a megabuck!
Yeah, go for it .... ! :shock:
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How many millionaires do you know became so on a deserted island?_
The American way will be for someone like silicon valley to create such great online virtual courses orders of magnitude better in quality and fun than traditional brick and mortar education at the price of an i-tune that allows like 99.9% of the people and taxpayers to not have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on education.
We learn to question our ideas/notions and improve or even change them ...
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