Question for Bernie Sanders supporters...

[Lukey]

What exactly did the evil "millionaires and billionaires" do that makes higher education too expensive for the middle class to be able to afford it any more?

It was the big government leftists who made higher ed more and more expensive. Isn't this just another example of the socialists blaming capitalism for the problems they have created?

 

[bdtex]

It was the big government leftists who made higher ed more and more expensive.

How does that happen at state universities in states where the executive branch,legislative branch and Boards of Regents are controlled by Republicans/conservatives? How does that happen at private universities where the Administration,faculty and Board of Regents are controlled by sociocons?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

What exactly did the evil "millionaires and billionaires" do that makes higher education too expensive for the middle class to be able to afford it any more?

It was the big government leftists who made higher ed more and more expensive. Isn't this just another example of the socialists blaming capitalism for the problems they have created?

As to publicly funded colleges, one answer is clear - massive tax cuts for the wealthy resulted in less revenues to run the colleges, leading to the need to jack up tuition.

 

[Lukey]

As to publicly funded colleges, one answer is clear - massive tax cuts for the wealthy resulted in less revenues to run the colleges, leading to the need to jack up tuition.

States cut taxes on the wealthy? Got a link?

Isn't it a fact that, on average, states are taking in more revenue than they ever have and that bloated payrolls and unsustainable benefit packages have required that states divert money from education to shore up state pensions and health care benefits?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

States cut taxes on the wealthy? Got a link?

Isn't it a fact that, on average, states are taking in more revenue than they ever have and that bloated payrolls and unsustainable benefit packages have required that states divert money from education to shore up state pensions and health care benefits?

Of course they have. And the GOP has done everything possible to slash education funding at the federal level, making loans more expensive, etc.

In typical fashion, the GOP slashes spending for public education, and then carps about rising tuitions.

 

[Lukey]

Of course they have. And the GOP has done everything possible to slash education funding at the federal level, making loans more expensive, etc.

In typical fashion, the GOP slashes spending for public education, and then carps about rising tuitions.

Where is the evidence for that?

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

Where is the evidence for that?

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The evidence for that is the GOP's relentless efforts at the state and federal level to slash spending on public education, reduce financial aid, and make college loans less affordable.

It's the strangest thing - you deny everything your GOP cult does, while still supporting them.

 

[Lukey]

The evidence for that is the GOP's relentless efforts at the state and federal level to slash spending on public education, reduce financial aid, and make college loans less affordable.

It's the strangest thing - you deny everything your GOP cult does, while still supporting them.

That chart shows a relentless increase in federal education spending, so your contention is full of bull crap (as usual). What the fact is is that the institutions of higher learning have undergone explosive growth in spending, and what you are really bitching about is the tax payers declining to step up and fund them at an increasing level over which they have no control.

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

That chart shows a relentless increase in federal education spending, so your contention is full of bull crap (as usual). What the fact is is that the institutions of higher learning have undergone explosive growth in spending, and what you are really bitching about is the tax payers declining to step up and fund them at an increasing level over which they have no control.

One of your asinine charts from some obscure source (which doesn't even purport to deal with state spending) does not even try to refute what I just said. Nor do you try to refute it. It, and you, just pretend to address the issue.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

State appropriations for public higher education have just faced another tough year. And yet, public institutions have faced many such years over the past three decades. Despite steadily growing student demand for higher education since the mid-1970s, state fiscal investment in higher education has been in retreat in the states since about 1980.

http://www.acenet.edu/the-presidenc...Pages/state-funding-a-race-to-the-bottom.aspx

 

[Bugsy McGurk]

State appropriations for public higher education have just faced another tough year. And yet, public institutions have faced many such years over the past three decades. Despite steadily growing student demand for higher education since the mid-1970s, state fiscal investment in higher education has been in retreat in the states since about 1980.

http://www.acenet.edu/the-presidenc...Pages/state-funding-a-race-to-the-bottom.aspx

These people are so strange.

Their economic policies are designed to increase income disparity and shift wealth upward, and their education policies are designed to slash spending on public education, reduce financial aid, and make college loans less affordable, and then they ask why education has become less affordable to the middle class.

They live in an impenetrable fantasy world where reality dare not creep in.