it's NOT free stuff DAMMIT! its retrieval of what the 1% has stolen from us!!!!!!!
with the help of wall street and generations of corrupt and greedy politicians.
its not socialism, its not communisn, its not even "free" stuff at others' expense.
it's a damn recovery process.
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don't know how student loans work? That's rich. 
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It's time that this theft is stopped!
Who are you to determine who is and isn't progressive, or what words can and can't be used by progressives?
...intrinsic worth, it is merely the value the market attaches to it. At this point in time, the market has attached a per-person cost of $0 to education. Who are we to challenge the primacy of the market's wishes? 
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No matter what you make per year or the amount of your check everyone pays the same percent in taxes. It's considered unearned income, which is bull pucky. My last check was $100 annnnd I still had to pay 40%. 
good! Dictators work havoc. You let yourselves be deprived before your own eyes of the best part of your revenues; your fields are plundered, your homes robbed, your family heirlooms taken away. You live in such a way that you cannot claim a single thing as your own; and it would seem that you consider yourselves lucky to be loaned your property, your families, and your very lives. All this havoc, this misfortune, this ruin, descends upon you not from alien foes, but from the one enemy whom you yourselves render as powerful as he is, for whom you go bravely to war, for whose greatness you do not refuse to offer your own bodies unto death. He who thus domineers over you has only two eyes, only two hands, only one body, no more than is possessed by the least man among the infinite numbers dwelling in your cities; he has indeed nothing more than the power that you confer upon him to destroy you.
Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you, if you do not provide them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with, if he does not borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except through you? How would he dare assail you if he had no cooperation from you? What could he do to you if you yourselves did not connive with the thief who plunders you, if you were not accomplices of the murderer who kills you, if you were not traitors to yourselves? You sow your crops in order that he may ravage them, you install and furnish your homes to give him goods to pillage; you rear your daughters that he may gratify his lust; you bring up your children in order that he may confer upon them the greatest privilege he knows — to be led into his battles, to be delivered to butchery, to be made the servants of his greed and the instruments of his vengeance; you yield your bodies unto hard labor in order that he may indulge in his delights and wallow in his filthy pleasures; you weaken yourselves in order to make him the stronger and the mightier to hold you in check.
From all these indignities, such as the very beasts of the field would not endure, you can deliver yourselves if you try, not by taking action, but merely by willing to be free. Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
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http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm
People have been pointing out very much what you said for a long time, eh?
From
The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
ÉTIENNE DE LA BOÉTIE,
1548
We have been hearing two things for too long.
"Tax cuts for the rich" and "there's no money to pay for it".
Keep in mind Bush gave the rich a trillion dollar tax cut in the middle of the war in Iraq.
