gesufaleg

4y

You realise how crazy this is right

Fact is, those who perform better with higher incomes go to schools that are better funded and the students have a better learning environment.

The step is to fix public schools. In some countries public schools perform better than private schools.

Even if you reduced the price considerably for college those well off will still be able to pay whatever price whereas some schools will still be way too costly for many.

Daveacee9

4y

Imagine riding for bloomberg aka mr stop and frisk, if he did a bad job running Ny what makes you think he can run the country?.
F*** him and his policy

KuntaKinte

4y

Also did Synopsis really pretend Biden didnt over perform Ilhan and AOC?

CLB Fractions

4y

he made a valid point tho

CLB Fractions

4y

he made a valid point tho

CLB Fractions

4y

not its not at all lmao.

Delejayn

4y

Ok. You have no idea what you’re talking about that’s why you haven’t offered any substance 😂.

Montreal

4y

So are there no real conservatives on KTT? Where are all those Trump supporters?

Montreal

4y

So are there no real conservatives on KTT? Where are all those Trump supporters?

CLB Fractions

4y

i didnt see any trump supporters

BasedBoy

4y

He better be

If Pete isn't president by 2032 at the latest I'll be extremely disappointed in America

Easily the greatest political voice since Obama at least

KuntaKinte

4y

Bloomberg is unironically considered the best Mayor in NYC history.

Lets relax

BasedBoy

4y

I'm centre-left (in the US)

Defund the police - Agree with the idea, terrible slogan though. If you have to explain what you mean by this, you've already lost.

M4A - Would never pass Congress, also not sure about the constitutionality of banning private insurance. Adding a public health insurance option (Like Pete's Medicare-For-All-Who-Want-It) would naturally lead to a single-payer market with some stragglers on private insurance if it's truly more efficient.

Schooling for all - I have mixed feelings. Making all 4 year schools free sounds great, but then you have a lot of kids from middle-class and upper-class schools who ordinarily would have gone to private school due to scholarships, now going to public schools because they're free. And schools only have so many slots, so the students who are getting pushed out here are gonna be the students from schools were they don't have the same opportunities to do extracurriculars and AP classes and stuff. I think making community college free and encouraging them to have fully online degree options to uncap enrollment would be nice,

Student debt removal - The bottom 20% of income earners in the US own 4% of the student loan debt, the top 20% own 30% of it. This is actually a handout to wealthier people if it isn't means tested.

Green New Deal -

Literally doesn't do anything. 100% performative legislation

BasedBoy

4y

I'm centre-left (in the US)

Defund the police - Agree with the idea, terrible slogan though. If you have to explain what you mean by this, you've already lost.

M4A - Would never pass Congress, also not sure about the constitutionality of banning private insurance. Adding a public health insurance option (Like Pete's Medicare-For-All-Who-Want-It) would naturally lead to a single-payer market with some stragglers on private insurance if it's truly more efficient.

Schooling for all - I have mixed feelings. Making all 4 year schools free sounds great, but then you have a lot of kids from middle-class and upper-class schools who ordinarily would have gone to private school due to scholarships, now going to public schools because they're free. And schools only have so many slots, so the students who are getting pushed out here are gonna be the students from schools were they don't have the same opportunities to do extracurriculars and AP classes and stuff. I think making community college free and encouraging them to have fully online degree options to uncap enrollment would be nice,

Student debt removal - The bottom 20% of income earners in the US own 4% of the student loan debt, the top 20% own 30% of it. This is actually a handout to wealthier people if it isn't means tested.

Green New Deal -

Literally doesn't do anything. 100% performative legislation

gabapentin

4y

Radlib buffoonery almost lost Biden the election

We must separate economic left ideas such as Medicare for all or soaking the rich (which are popular)

With intentionally divisive identitarian nonsense

GIO GIO

4y

Not a conservative at all but I disagree with some progressive issues

For healthcare, I think we should have a public option. I don't think we need to get rid of private health insurance that 200 million people have and like. I think those who need health insurance should have an option, but if you have money you want to spend on better private care, we should allow that. Public health care isn't great for everyone. My sister has been trying to get diagnosed for ADHD in Canada and they told her they're booked for appointments until next March, and she'll have to wait. This is common in all countries that have only public healthcare

For paying off all student debt - why should the (poorer) 66% of Americans who don't go to college pay taxes that pay for the education of those who did go to college? Especially considering those who do go tend to make enough to pay it off? You're asking those who don't make as much money to pay off the college of those who are educated and get higher paying jobs. The average student debt is ~$30k. In the extreme cases, If you're spending $200k for a useless degree, that's somewhat self inflected. People go to school to become doctors/engineers/lawyers and you want uneducated people to pay off their loans? Rather than throwing money at the issue we need to look at the root of the problem, schools raising tuition because they can because they know you'll just take out a loan to deal with later, high interest rates. I don't have the perfect solution but I don't think paying off all student debt is the solution

Weed as well as most other d**** should be legal and people locked up for weed need to be free. This one should be an easy one for everyone to agree on.

A lot of progressive policies sound good at a surface level but looking at the details it quickly becomes more complicated that it sounds

safe

4y

Sure which is why you should make university free under means testing

Making it free for everyone just puts wealthy students at an advantage

EMY

4y

Are they not already at an advantage? How would making it free for everyone widen the advantage they already have?

safe

4y

Because right now college is means tested to an extent

But yea there’s still an advantage

EMY

4y

I understand it’s means tested but I still don’t see how making it free would widen the already existing advantage the wealthy have. Is this an issue in all the European countries that have free college education?

safe

4y

Yea People were saying yesterday that it’s basically decided whether you’re going to college by age 12