I agree with the rest but cut it off there for space. I'd just like to add that for people who are older (and I'm one of them - graduated undergrad in 1985), we all went to school when a public college was FAR more affordable than it is now. So we can sit back and say, "We did it on our own!!" but don't account for the fact that the share of college funded by taxes has declined as the share of total costs paid by tuition has almost doubled just since 1988, as total tuition itself has skyrocketed. So they're paying a much larger share of a much bigger number.
In my generation, many people could work and fund the vast majority of their tuition costs, and still graduate in decent shape financially. It's no accident that young people today are so upset by college, and it's because they're facing a funding problem that is pretty unique to them.
Case in point. My company routinely hires college grads for temp positions. You can't even be considered if you don't have a 4 year degree, and the pay starts at $12.50 an hour, which is absolutely absurd given the amount college costs. Until you change the culture at companies, desiring college grads, then your platform continues to fail.
I don't find the complaints of conservatives to be based in reality when it comes to taxation. Yes, you'd be taxed to pay for things like reducing overall student debt burden, or medicare for all. I find it so hypocritical to do so.
Someone paid for you to go to school. The tax payers subsidized your education by subsidizing schools and colleges. No, you didn't "do it all on your own". Someone paid for the roads you drive on, the safety of your vehicle, the cleanliness of your air and water. Someone is paying for your future retirement benefits.
Someone also paid for your kids. Even if you sent them to private school, the public at large subsidized the private school via tax waivers, exemptions, etc. Churches, the same thing.
In the end some of us find it a more noble cause to ensure the foundation of our society remains in tact.
Grossly unethical? Are you delusional? It seems you are vastly disconnected from how wealthy some people are. The democrats are absolutely the opposite of your last sentence - if they're Justice democrats. They don't want the rich to keep getting tons in tax breaks while denying the public adequate healthcare and schooling.
At the end of the day this boils down to one fundamental disagreement; you don't want our tax dollars going to improve the lives of Americans. You'd rather our tax dollars go to bomb Middle Easterners and to the top earners who do not in turn lower prices or hire more people.
