2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bill: “People like me and Hillary can afford to go to college. The government can’t help everyone." [View all]Chathamization
(1,638 posts)One of the biggest obstacles that the poor have to getting the assistance that they are eligible for is all the paperwork and hoops that people are required to jump through. I've seen plenty of people who are eligible for healthcare or foodstamps but aren't getting them because their application hit some sort of administrative glitch that they were told they had to figure out themselves, or they submitted all of the documents they were told they were supposed to, told to wait to hear something, didn't after weeks, called again, were told to submit different documents and wait, did again, and eventually gave up. Or a hole slew of other horror stories.
"But why should Donald Trump's children get free college education?" Well, you raise the taxes on the rich, which pays for it.
"But that would be raising taxes/but there isn't enough money for the rich to pay for it all/etc. etc/" Eh, is the logic really that hard to understand? If someone was going to pay $10,000 dollars to the school, they'll instead pay $10,000 to the government (spread out over their lifetime). Everyone is paying the same amount they're supposed to in both plans, but making the schools free means you won't be burying the poor under a mountain of paper work, which often means they end up paying more than they're supposed to (but maybe that's part of the plan?). People who wealth-splain don't seem to get this, and it shows how little they understand about the plight of the poor.