Tax giveaways and corporate welfare? No problem. No questions about how to pay for it.
PPP loans for COVID emergency relief to corporations forgiven? No problem. No questions about how to pay for it.
Loans to students so they can get the college education we tell them they need to have?
How are we going to pay for it?
This is debt that they should never have had to assume in the first place, especially at rates far higher than what are offered to banks and financial institutions. If the U.S. government is going to loan money to students, at the very least it should be at interest no higher than whatever the lowest rate charged anyone else is.
Most other industrial nations have free public education K-through public college.
In the United States, we guarantee free public education through high school, but add four more years and all of a sudden it somehow becomes a communist plot?
Conservatives keep talking about “American exceptionalism,” but it seems to mean that things like universal no-fee health care, universal no-fee public higher education, high-speed rail, common-sense gun safety oversight, a strong social safety net and financial security for seniors can work in every other industrialized country in the world, “except” not in the United States.
In other words, everyone else in the industrial world is good enough, smart enough and worthy enough to make these things work, EXCEPT the United States.
Tax giveaways and corporate welfare? No problem. No questions about how to pay for it.
PPP loans for COVID emergency relief to corporations forgiven? No problem. No questions about how to pay for it.
Loans to students so they can get the college education we tell them they need to have?
How are we going to pay for it?
This is debt that they should never have had to assume in the first place, especially at rates far higher than what are offered to banks and financial institutions. If the U.S. government is going to loan money to students, at the very least it should be at interest no higher than whatever the lowest rate charged anyone else is.
Most other industrial nations have free public education K-through public college.
In the United States, we guarantee free public education through high school, but add four more years and all of a sudden it somehow becomes a communist plot?
Conservatives keep talking about “American exceptionalism,” but it seems to mean that things like universal no-fee health care, universal no-fee public higher education, high-speed rail, common-sense gun safety oversight, a strong social safety net and financial security for seniors can work in every other industrialized country in the world, “except” not in the United States.
In other words, everyone else in the industrial world is good enough, smart enough and worthy enough to make these things work, EXCEPT the United States.