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(32,640 posts)What is accessible to someone with less money will be different than what is accessible to someone with lots of money.
"Free" is not "relative." It means "free of charge." And especially if something is socialized, that person making minimum wage will be paying something via their payroll taxes. I know - I worked in the UK and had an equivalent of 4 hours pay a week deducted from my check for national health. Accessible and affordable - yes. Free? Not at all.
That is why HRC stated that her debt free college plan would not extend tuition waivers to wealthy families, who would be responsible for paying more, in order for it to cost less or nothing for those who had less or nothing.
You can't honestly promise "free" anything, because it's not going to be free for everyone, it can't be. Of course, it's a fabulous campaign slogan, if not an accurate one. It certainly gets voters pissed off at one's opponent for bursting their bubble about how things actually work.