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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]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)48. Yeah, yeah, I get this sophistry.
See all my replies above. If "you are rich" you should be made to pay taxes. If you are "forced" to pay tuition all that means is your kids go to college and those who can't afford it either don't or get saddled with debt. It's hardly penalizing the "rich." And what's rich, anyway? Methinks this unspecified means test will be awfully flexible. Will it even allow a household to make a hundred thou before they have to pay 15, 20 for tuition at a "public" university? I doubt it. This is just more "NO WE CAN'T" rhetoric to justify the status quo.
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Bill: “People like me and Hillary can afford to go to college. The government can’t help everyone." [View all]
JackRiddler
Jan 2016
OP
He did not say, "if you can't afford it, tough s*&t." Clearly, he said tax dollars should
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#20
Stop pointing and reading one word at a time. Things might make more sense to you.
Hoyt
Jan 2016
#42
You Just Make It Free Up To A Certain Income Level, Then Decrease The Subsidy Incrementally
CorporatistNation
Jan 2016
#62
He doesn't think that poor people should be paying for rich people's college.
MeNMyVolt
Jan 2016
#17
How is it that free universities were once considered affordable public goods
JackRiddler
Jan 2016
#29
To be honest, his point is that there are people who CAN afford to pay for college
Maedhros
Jan 2016
#16
The point is "means testing" complicates things beyond belief and creates lines in the sand that...
Bread and Circus
Jan 2016
#33
What a disingenuous asshole. Bill and Hillary are the 1% of 1% of 1% of 1%
Bread and Circus
Jan 2016
#32
They just don't get it. No surprise from the man behind "welfare reform"
Chathamization
Jan 2016
#34
There is not an unlimited amount of financial resources in this country at this time
Lucinda
Jan 2016
#57