I already have two worthless degrees.
We have more green energy now than at any time in the past - I am fairly sure.
One reason we can't have free college tuition is that a lot of people do not want to pay higher taxes. The same is probably true for single payer, except many have little idea how much insurance is costing them (or don't care), probably because the savings will not come back to them.
For example, working full time for my employer I would get health insurance for free. My employer pays something like $800 a month (and for married couples or families they pay substantially more (so much for equal pay for equal work)) for that health insurance. So if we switch to single payer which costs, say, $500 a month in taxes, that is a net savings of $300 a month. Except who is gonna pay the taxes? Unless my employer pays them, I am out money, because the $800 a month they save is not going to come back to me in extra pay. I suspect many, if not most, Americans are already in a place where their health care is heavily subsidized by their employers, and it is they, the people, who do not wanna pay more to help other people who are not so lucky.
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