Pretty clever to claim it does and get credit for it doing so while it doesn't in fact do so. His Free College for All plan leads to free college for all no more than Obamacare leads to universal healthcare for all.
In fact it's considerably less generous than that even.
"I wrote last week that Bernie Sanders's campaign had changed my mind and convinced me that he is right to set tuition-free college at public universities as the goal for higher education policy."
"But I also noted that I wasn't sold on the implementation details of his plan, and that in my experience Sanders enthusiasts were not especially aware of the content of his plan."
"Big-picture principles are important, but implementation is important too. It's worth reading Sanders's actual plan, since not only is there a lot of nitpicking one could do but there's also an enormous glaring flaw. It pretty clearly wouldn't achieve its goal of making the United States a country where students pay zero tuition to attend public colleges."
"This matters because it's not so much a design flaw as a concession to some practical realities that Sanders doesn't admit to on the campaign trail — realities that his supporters would be well-advised to pay more attention to."
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11222482/bernie-sanders-free-college
What Yglesias meant in his piece last week, was that Bernie convinced him that Bernie's college plan had political efficacy. It's a political winner to say 'I believe in free college as a right for all Americans paid for by millionaires and billionaires.'
In fact it's considerably less generous than that even.
"I wrote last week that Bernie Sanders's campaign had changed my mind and convinced me that he is right to set tuition-free college at public universities as the goal for higher education policy."
"But I also noted that I wasn't sold on the implementation details of his plan, and that in my experience Sanders enthusiasts were not especially aware of the content of his plan."
"Big-picture principles are important, but implementation is important too. It's worth reading Sanders's actual plan, since not only is there a lot of nitpicking one could do but there's also an enormous glaring flaw. It pretty clearly wouldn't achieve its goal of making the United States a country where students pay zero tuition to attend public colleges."
"This matters because it's not so much a design flaw as a concession to some practical realities that Sanders doesn't admit to on the campaign trail — realities that his supporters would be well-advised to pay more attention to."
http://www.vox.com/2016/3/14/11222482/bernie-sanders-free-college
What Yglesias meant in his piece last week, was that Bernie convinced him that Bernie's college plan had political efficacy. It's a political winner to say 'I believe in free college as a right for all Americans paid for by millionaires and billionaires.'
Whether it does it or not. What Bernie does on so many issues is make things very simple. Don't get me wrong-simple is good. But not simplistic. You want to simplify as much as you can but not grossly oversimplify which is what Bernie's game is.
So on trade he's just going to rip up NAFTA and China deals. No matter scrupling into the details of what that would accomplish or what the pitfalls of this might be.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/some-more-on-bernies-demonization-of.html
Saying 'free college for all' sounds great. If how we get there matters, or the fact that we don't actually get there.
Hillary comes out for debt free college and Bernie comes out for 'tuition free college' and so all the Bernie bots say it's a slam dunk. Better no tuition at all than just no debt.
And the fact that it doesn't actually mean the end of tuition? Well, we don't want details. We just want our aspirations spoken to.
Yet, Bernie's tuition plan has to go through the states just like ACA and is even less generous.
"One is that the 2-1 match for eliminating tuition is much less generous than the 9-1 match offered by the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, yet many states have chosen not to expand Medicaid.
The other is that because the College for All Act requires qualifying universities to reduce reliance on low-paid adjunct faculty in addition to eliminating tuition, in practice the federal match is worth even less than 2 to 1."
Last night the one of the moderators at the Ohio Town Hall asked Bernie about his-alleged-free college for all plan. Would this hurt historically black colleges that are private? Here was The Bern's response:
".@BernieSanders says he does not want to see money leave the public schools: public charters yes, magnets yes, but not private charters."
https://twitter.com/TeddyDavisCNN/status/709176694758776832
So the main difference between he and Hillary is that he makes things sound much simpler than they are.
Some might like the way he overpromises. Others though like me or Charles Blow trust him less for this very reason.
So on trade he's just going to rip up NAFTA and China deals. No matter scrupling into the details of what that would accomplish or what the pitfalls of this might be.
http://lastmenandovermen.blogspot.com/2016/03/some-more-on-bernies-demonization-of.html
Saying 'free college for all' sounds great. If how we get there matters, or the fact that we don't actually get there.
Hillary comes out for debt free college and Bernie comes out for 'tuition free college' and so all the Bernie bots say it's a slam dunk. Better no tuition at all than just no debt.
And the fact that it doesn't actually mean the end of tuition? Well, we don't want details. We just want our aspirations spoken to.
Yet, Bernie's tuition plan has to go through the states just like ACA and is even less generous.
"One is that the 2-1 match for eliminating tuition is much less generous than the 9-1 match offered by the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion, yet many states have chosen not to expand Medicaid.
The other is that because the College for All Act requires qualifying universities to reduce reliance on low-paid adjunct faculty in addition to eliminating tuition, in practice the federal match is worth even less than 2 to 1."
Last night the one of the moderators at the Ohio Town Hall asked Bernie about his-alleged-free college for all plan. Would this hurt historically black colleges that are private? Here was The Bern's response:
".@BernieSanders says he does not want to see money leave the public schools: public charters yes, magnets yes, but not private charters."
https://twitter.com/TeddyDavisCNN/status/709176694758776832
So the main difference between he and Hillary is that he makes things sound much simpler than they are.
Some might like the way he overpromises. Others though like me or Charles Blow trust him less for this very reason.
https://twitter.com/CharlesMBlow/status/709403830820196352
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