Under Mayor Pete's brilliant plan, the child of a bus driver and a garbage man is not eligible for free college.
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If you and your partner each make $50k a year, your kids would not be eligible for free college under Mayor Pete's plan. The US median salary is $46k a year.https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1200395573100269569 …
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The average American family has two kids. The average US public college costs $20,000 a year. Mayor Pete thinks that parents who make $50k a piece ($3,200 a year above the median salary) are an elite group whose kids should not get free college.
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This truly whiz bang triumph of a plan does not appear to be adjusted for cost of living or local median salaries. For instance, the median individual income in New York City is $50,000, making a bog standard NYC family with two working parents ineligible for free college
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Anyway, Pete's fan-fucking-tastic college plan was crafted by lobbyists to play on feelings of resentment in order to keep people from getting free college for their and everyone else's kids.
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Mayor Pete's plan is classic means-testing. What does means-testing provide? Paperwork. Bureaucracy. Possibly some sort of contract for private companies. And most of all, a giant barrier to access for anyone who doesn't have the time to negotiate a million forms
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The only people who will benefit from Mayor Pete's staggering genius college plan are the shareholders of whatever private company he contracts to process all the paperwork it will generate
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One lovely effect of Mayor Pete's beautiful plan is that it severely punishes two-parent families where both parents work.
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By the way, next to no families in which both parents are public employees would be covered by Mayor Pete's plan
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Pete's college boondoggle relies on the fact that most people are too busy to parse the difference between individual and household incomes. (politicians pushing regressive policies play on similar fuzziness about the difference btw gross vs. net, or what a marginal tax rate is)
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For those interested in my data, you can check out the median household incomes of married couples with kids here: https://statusofwomendata.org/explore-the-data/poverty-opportunity/additional-state-data/median-household-income-by-household-type/ … It ranges from $62k (Idaho) to a few states, like Jersey and Connecticut, that are over $100k
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According to the US census, the median household income for married couples was $93k Basically, Mayor Pete thinks the child of a couple that makes $7k more than the median income for married couples is in the same bracket as the scion of millionaires https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/time-series/historical-income-families/f07ar.xls …
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