I have been silent on this issue, mostly because I thought this was a rather no-brainer issue, where regardless of the desire to make something free, there will always be costs incurred because of employees, infrastructure, and adequate resourcing to facilitate a proper education. https://youtube/watch?v=TqBv3CEyM6Y Julie Borowski is someone that puts out more Libertarian talking points. I will also post relevant links to US Budget examinations. White House Itself: whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/ Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_budget National Priorities, a balanced Budget think-tank: https://nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ WaPo: washingtonpost/wp-srv/special/politics/presidential-budget-2014/ USGovernmentSpending, NUMBERS!: usgovernmentspending/federal_budget_pie Basically, the question we have to seriously evaluate is that with Medicare, Income Security, and Healthcare, and Defense Spending at their levels, and making up the 89% of the Federal Budget, how the heck are we suppose to cut the other programs in an efficient manner so as to pay for universal collegiate education at a Associates level? We could cut the Defense Michael. Sure thats great for a little while, but as we deal with people living longer and the economy failing to improve, the spending on Healthcare, Pensions, and Welfare will increase, and with the rising Education costs, any significant cut to the Defense will just merely be replaced in time. AND GUESS WHAT? WE WILL STILL HAVE A FEDERAL DEFICIT, A GROWING DEBT, and at some point, a dumb enough government, that we will have to default on that debt. We could raise taxes. This assumption is great except for the fact that as taxes increase, the immigration into a country decreases, as well as emigration from the current citizenrys wealthiest increasing. In time, taxing the highest incomes or the most wealthiest corporations will drive them out rather than rake in the money. You will have the already growing deficit grow deeper and quicker. What we should be really talking about is serious cuts without ADDITIONAL spending. We have a rather large interest growing on our debt. And its so large at this point that its twice what we spend on Education NOW.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:12:25 +0000
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