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View Poll Results: Do You Agree with Sanders' "Free College" Platform?
Yes 65 36.52%
No 113 63.48%
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Old 08-17-2015, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Tip of the Sphere. Just the tip.
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"More the way of the Germans", huh?

How US students get a university degree for free in Germany - BBC News

 
Old 08-18-2015, 12:20 PM
 
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Default It's a lie

Nothing is free how will you build the college, pay the teachers, faculty, and everything that goes in it desks, computers, etc. If it sounds to good to be true, it's because it is.
 
Old 08-18-2015, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Inyokern, CA
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Obama threw out this idea last year and promoted free community college. Knowing that it had no chance, that is.

As the election season is heating up and with his national popularity growing, Bernie Sanders has also been busy touting the free college rhetoric for all 4-year universities. Seems like this idea has been taking off in recent years especially with student loan debt ranking just behind credit card debt.

Do you support the left's idea of free college tuition? Good or bad for America?
Not only NO, but HE!! NO!
 
Old 08-18-2015, 02:54 PM
 
Location: NJ
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Obama threw out this idea last year and promoted free community college. Knowing that it had no chance, that is.

As the election season is heating up and with his national popularity growing, Bernie Sanders has also been busy touting the free college rhetoric for all 4-year universities. Seems like this idea has been taking off in recent years especially with student loan debt ranking just behind credit card debt.

Do you support the left's idea of free college tuition? Good or bad for America?
the problem isn't raising tuition, the problem lies in the constantly rising cost of tuition that is baffling. Why not make universities review their spending and marketing practices. Often accused of playing with grants to attract the weathier students. Universities are selecting the wealthy students over the less wealthy students flies in the face of that bastion of liberal activists.
 
Old 08-18-2015, 02:58 PM
 
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Given the choice (and that means I am not 100% in agreement with the policy), I'd rather Americans to college for free than give billionaire corporations and CEO's BILLIONS in tax cuts!!

The Walton - WALMART are worth $144 billion and this year alone, we are gifting them with $6 billion in tax breaks. How very magnanimous of us
 
Old 08-18-2015, 03:00 PM
 
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Nothing is free how will you build the college, pay the teachers, faculty, and everything that goes in it desks, computers, etc. If it sounds to good to be true, it's because it is.
Nothing is free - unless you're a big corporation - then the US gov't practically throws free money at you.
 
Old 08-18-2015, 03:17 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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Given the choice (and that means I am not 100% in agreement with the policy), I'd rather Americans to college for free than give billionaire corporations and CEO's BILLIONS in tax cuts!!

The Walton - WALMART are worth $144 billion and this year alone, we are gifting them with $6 billion in tax breaks. How very magnanimous of us
So your upset Walmart is paying taxes in other countries that have their stores as well as paying taxes in the US for US stores instead of paying the U.S. Taxes for income earned in other countries.

I still cannot figure out why so many hate people that are successful.
 
Old 08-18-2015, 03:19 PM
 
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So your upset Walmart is paying taxes in other countries that have their stores as well as paying taxes in the US for US stores instead of paying the U.S. Taxes for income earned in other countries.

I still cannot figure out why so many hate people that are successful.
They said nothing about taxes.

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Old 08-18-2015, 03:25 PM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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They said nothing about taxes.

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The post I responded to said specifically taxes, it didn't mention QE.

But I just read a thread where a red said QE didn't do any good.
 
Old 08-18-2015, 03:31 PM
 
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The post I responded to said specifically taxes, it didn't mention QE.

But I just read a thread where a red said QE didn't do any good.
Sorry, you are right. I had posts confused.
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