The drumbeat from the left is unmistakable…….FREE Education….FREE Medicare for all……FREE ______________(Fill in the blank). It’s as if a Utopian world is about to be unleashed and the COST of these goodies will disappear in a puff of smoke and we will all benefit.
Not true.
A great example is Education. Today, there are approximately 20 MILLION students matriculating to either a private or public university/college. Let’s do some simple math and allocate $15,000 a year to tuition alone (the average between in-state and out-of-state tuition). That would pencil out to a total cost of about $300,000,000,000 a year in tuition costs alone! Let’s be real – THE COSTS THESE TUITION DOLLARS COVER AREN’T GOING ANYWHERE!
But what will the Socialists do to make up that $300,000,000,000?
Why raise taxes, of course!
First, they will tell you that we can get that money by “raising taxes on the rich”. That, again, is a lie. You could tax every person making over $200K by an additional 20-30% and not gather that much revenue – and you would wreck our economy at the same time. So there remains just two ways to raise that amount of yearly cash – and neither is very pleasant:
A National Sales Tax and/or Added Payroll Deductions.
Let us be very clear – if either is implemented that means one thing – YOU WILL BE PAYING FOR COLLEGE AND YOU WILL BE PAYING – FOREVER! Yes, you will not have a student loan – which after you pay it off you’re done with it – but you will be paying these taxes each and every day for the rest of your adult life. But it doesn’t stop there! For you wonderful people who have had the grit and determination to make your way in the world without having that sheepskin in your back pocket, you will have the joy of paying for other’s higher education – for the rest of your life! That’s right, you who have made your own way get to pay those payroll taxes and/or sales taxes to allow OTHERS to go to college! Whooopppeee!
Another “bait-and-switch” of the far, far left that has become the new home for the Democratic Party. They claim this is now becoming “Mainstream” thought, yet, I wonder who on “Main Street” likes this idea……