One that is important to me: college cost. I am drowning in it. I have been attempting to manage it most of my adult life and will until the day I die as I have no way to pay it off in my lifetime. I make "to much" to qualify for most payment programs and to little to actually make the payments they want without resorting to living on public assistance, which I likely wouldn't qualify to get either.
My bigger point I'm making is I wouldn't be in this position if we had done what almost every other nation (all first world nations) on Earth have done: free or near free university system through a progressive tax burden shared by its citizens. What HRC proposes is this:
"Provide grants to states that commit to ensuring that no student should borrow for tuition and improved affordability for other costs at 4-year public colleges and universities."
This is a sham proposal. Majority of states have teapublican governors and legislatures and requiring and getting their buy-in will never happen. If they are willing to refuse Medicare money, they will refuse to do this.
Not to mention that her proposal will have an additional burden on the poor and middle class by this:
"Families will be expected to make a realistic and simplified family contribution. Students will contribute based on wages from ten hours per week of work."
Requiring them to work and go to school, carrying a full load of classes and working 10 hours a week is very difficult for many, if not impossible, while being a successful student at the same time. Sure, people do it but it sure as hell isn't the ideal and no other 1st world nation makes they type of requirement of its students.
To make this short and sweet, I'll make it simple:
Sanders ask me, as middle-class, to pay a little more in taxes, in return we get paid family leave, free college tuition and universal healthcare. In return, I get to stay at home with my sick spouse without using all my leave or going into debt or both.
Send my kids to college without them or me burdened with crushing debt I can't pay.
No longer having thousands of dollars taken out of my check and paid by my employer to have comprehensive and nationwide health coverage. No more overloaded emergency rooms or medical debt bankruptcy (which, as an aside, contributed to riding healthcare cost).
Lastly, what, they (every other 1st world nation) can do it but we can not? Are they more competent? Capable? Committed? Is it because we are a bunch of special flowers? ("We're so special" and "we're so different"
. It can work everywhere else, just not here. So special, we currently do it in a way that puts more money in only a few pockets and continues to burden low and middle-class families with a lifetime of debt?
STOP THE LIES
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