Socialist Bernie Sanders Launches Bill for Tuition-Free College, Disproportionately Helping Wealthie

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Socialist Bernie Sanders Launches Bill for Tuition-Free College, Disproportionately Helping Wealthier Families

Wendell Husebo 21 Apr 2021

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed legislation for tuition-free college in a bill that disproportionately supports wealthier families.

The bill dubbed the “College for All Act” intends to render community colleges and trade schools tuition free for students from families earning less than $125,000 a year. But there is more. “Trade schools and community colleges would be free for all students,” according to a CBS News report.

On the legislation introduced with radical Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Sanders wrote in an Op-Ed Wednesday saying there is “no question” the proposal is “expensive,” but paying to fix this problem “should not fall on the shoulders of working Americans who already pay the bulk of this nation’s taxes.”

“The good news is that we are living in the wealthiest country in the history of the world,” the wealthy socialist penned.

However, the Brookings Institute, a left-leaning think tank, has reported Sanders’ free university scheme would benefit families like Sanders’ own. Sanders admitted to Fox News he is, indeed, a “millionaire.”

“If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too,” Sanders said, defending his capitalistic success.

In a study entitled “Who would benefit most from free college?” Brookings writes, “students from higher income families would receive a disproportionate share of the benefits of free college, largely because they tend to attend more expensive institutions.” The study also concludes, “Benefits under the Sanders plan does not appear to be very progressive.”

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Socialist Bernie Sanders Launches Bill for Tuition-Free College, Disproportionately Helping Wealthier Families

Wendell Husebo 21 Apr 2021

Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has proposed legislation for tuition-free college in a bill that disproportionately supports wealthier families.

The bill dubbed the “College for All Act” intends to render community colleges and trade schools tuition free for students from families earning less than $125,000 a year. But there is more. “Trade schools and community colleges would be free for all students,” according to a CBS News report.


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In a study entitled “Who would benefit most from free college?” Brookings writes, “students from higher income families would receive a disproportionate share of the benefits of free college, largely because they tend to attend more expensive institutions.” The study also concludes, “Benefits under the Sanders plan does not appear to be very progressive.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/04/21/socialist-bernie-sanders-launches-bill-for-tuition-free-college-disproportionately-helping-wealthier-families/

It does not help the cause of defeating Sanders scheme to misapply a Brookings Institution study in criticizing it.  The Brookings Institution study finds that free college would benefit the well-off (being paid for by the taxes of us all, and thus be a net transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich), but that is not what Sanders has proposed.  He has proposed free community college and trade school, and with an income cap on those who for whom these would be free.  It may be a bad idea, but it is not bad for the reasons for which Brookings found unqualified free college was a bad idea.