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Originally Posted by rubecube
So only rich kids should get to choose vocations they're passionate about?
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You didn't address any of afc's points. Free tuition isn't likely to move the needle a whole lot in terms of poor kids going to the college of their choice.
The problem with all Bernie's ideas is they are all these simple, absolute policies without much thought for how to implement them and they disregard all the potential pitfalls and may end up hurting the people they are trying to help.
How would free college even look? Most universities are pretty tough to get into anyway these days. Even if you fix the bad public schools in poor areas (which is a huge task on its own), the wealthy are probably still going to be in somewhat better public schools. If admission standards go up, then the wealthy are going to be spending even more money on things like Kumon and Mathnasium to get their kids grades up and further drive up admission standards. Do we really even wanted to be doing this to our kids?
Truly poor kids who do very well in school already generally have access to free university, they may end up losing out if they can't keep up with tougher admissions.
There are countless ways this could backfire. It is extremely unlikely that Bernie can get any of these things passed through both houses. So what does he do then? Does he stick to all or nothing and most likely do nothing? Or does he compromise, get called a sellout and go with policies that end up looking a lot like things that Biden is proposing?