@SenDonnelly @SenDonnelly gives Demo progressives (including me) an important New Year’s message - we need working family message appealing also to rural culturally conservative voters in Red States. Our economic populist program should. Raising taxes for “free” everything won’t
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You're no progressive. These are conservative talking points using conservative rhetoric and reasoning.
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"Free college" is not the least bit misleading. *Everyone* understands it means tuition-free for students but we still need to pay the faculty, etc. Free college would cost less than the increases in military spending passed in 2017 alone (with no tax increases to "pay for" it).
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And taxes at the federal level haven't been needed to pay for anything (in the traditional sense) since we moved off of the gold standard. They are primarily for reducing aggregate demand (taming inflation), and should not be expected to match up 1-to-1 with spending.
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You know what else tames inflation: Investment to increase the productive capacity of our labor force. Your implication that we'd need to raise taxes to pay for this particular program is simply false.
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He’s a mob lawyer. He’s a joke. Donnelly and McCaskill LOST! They can all take a seat in time out until they are ready for progress.
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The same is, of course, true about universal public K-12 education which is commonly referred to as free even though it actually costs money. And libraries. And fire departments.
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Yep, Lanny Davis in daily life: "It's so confusing that libraries are free but we pay taxes for them so they can't be free! I don't understand how society works!"
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Probably agrees with that guy that thinks libraries should be replaced with Amazon stores. Think of all the revenue we aren't capturing from underserved neighbourhoods!
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Tuition at land grant unis was free, nobody bitched about it in the 70's when I went. Yes we still paid for housing and books, you're making it sound like spending tax $ on education is wasteful.
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The entire University of CA system had no tuition fees from its inception in *1868*. Gov Reagan instituted tuition fees in the early 1970s because he fucking hated the students. A hundred years of nearly free high-quality education has been of great benefit to CA.
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Free tuition is probably the single greatest investment the government can possibly make in it's citizenry. Investing in the already-wealthy via tax cuts is a complete waste, in relative and absolute terms.
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One of the most basic macroeconomic principles is Marginal Propensity to Consume/Save, which explicitly states that giving money to rich people is worse for the economy than giving money to poor people. That was like week 1.
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Think of a charity like Donors Choose, instead of “free” college, we want a system where Taxpayers Choose to have a larger percentage of tax revenue go into funding education & healthcare, while still setting aside a portion for defense and infrastructure.
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Students who are not hampered with debt the size of mortgages will be able to participate in the economy, buy homes, cars, etc. It will have a positive impact on those beyond those who receive it.
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Trickle OUT > Trickle Down
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It’s nonsense that progressives don’t acknowledge it comes out of tax money
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It's nonsense how insincere this criticism is.
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It would take 8 days of military spending to make college completely free for a year
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