Thank you.

Imagine that.

Ignoring the advantage that incumbent presidents have and the circumstances required to overcome that advantage Bernie Sanders was not going to beat Trump a week ago and will not beat him regardless of what happens in the coming weeks. Biden isn’t going to either.

Bernie Sanders had five years to figure out why he didn’t reach black voters in the last primary and what did he do? He came back and decided to run the same campaign all over again.

Most colleges are diploma mills...

Keep trying to tell people that effective tax rates on the top fifth of earners haven’t actually changed all that much in the past half century or so...

That’s because cutting taxes involves letting people keep their money. Raising taxes involves taking away their money.

Putting lifelong Democratic voters in the position that Trump put many reasonable Republicans in four years ago is not how you start a negotiation. Progressives can whoop and holler about this and that but they do not make up the majority of Democratic voters. Maybe not even a plurality. Progressives are not the voice…

If your refund is larger than tens of dollars (or ideally you end up owing tens of dollars) then fix your freaking withholding before worrying about gift cards.

Meaningless distinction that only makes sense in contexts where the schools are owned and operated by the government in question. If the school is not owned and operated by the national public it is not a public school in this context.

Please explain why the federal government should pay for people going to state owned/operated schools while excluding the 4-5 million people attending private schools.

Caps/lifetime limits on graduate/parental debt is a good thing. Schools generally charge what you can finance and the federal government lowering what you can finance effectively drops the net price.

There are millions of students in post-secondary institutions in the US. There are maybe a few hundred thousand in what could be considered top (think top 50ish rankings) schools...

Can they take over healthcare too? And paying my rent?

Most people shouldn’t be attempting to use their noggin. Most people should sit on their hands, throw money at the problem consistently, and enjoy their multi-million dollar net worth in 40 years.

Someone already said as much but it’s worth saying it again for the people in the back... nor do gains.

So in your plan the fed is going to take over student lending?

The US makes financing for education available to ensure that our, and this is important here, best and brightest minds aren’t wasted or otherwise encumbered by their family financial situations. Our best and brightest minds aren’t struggling to differentiate between Harvard, their local state school, and Trump U.…

You’re absolving the borrower (and the adults in their life that care about them) of their responsibility to do their research on the schools in question and punting that to the lender...

People call the stock market gambling when we have nearly a century of evidence to the contrary. How is making a five figure bet on a 17 year old’s unknowable future income anything different? If that’s the plan they’ll start to vet the students and if they’re vetting the students people that would get a shot today…