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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I'm not an American, buy I pay American taxes. I would rather take all the money they spend on overseas military posts/bases/missions and dump it ALL into healthcare reform.
Education needs to be reformed, not subsidized.
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Education needs to be reformed indeed and unfortunately some of that reform is going to have to be reducing how much it costs. We can argue until we are blue in the face that "reform" will bring about those reductions or that gouging will not be allowed but the end result is the populace will see that as nothing more than a subsidized system. I don't think Sanders believes everyone should have free education equates to simply handing wannabe students money. It has to come from reform. (edit: also want to point out that Sanders is saying tuition PUBLIC institutions should be free. Plenty of private schools around which wouldn't fit under that umbrella. This is also the ideology phase of things where you put your wish list to the forefront rather than what one expects to actually achieve. Call me crazy that while I think Sanders is too far left, I much prefer his rhetoric to that of the entire GOP field and Clinton).
healthcare...the US already spends 6 times per capita on socialized healthcare than the next highest per capita spender for the developed countries (Canada) yet is the only country without universal coverage. There is plenty of money in the system just as there is with education. Proper and true reform need not actually cost the country and its citizens money.
But these are the problems of a "democracy" run by the special interest groups that have the deepest pockets.
So really the first reform has to be TRUE and REAL election reform. Until that happens you will never trim the very substantial fat that already exists that could cover these things that ought to be covered.