Matthew Yglesias:
“he most decisive reason to like Sanders’s goal of free college, however, didn’t become clear until the campaign itself began. The great thing about free college is that people know what it means and some people are excited about it.
Clinton’s college affordability plan, a much more complicated compact aimed at the goal of allowing students to graduate debt-free, utterly fails on this score. It is true that her plan is more fiscally progressive — delivering more help to poor students and less to non-poor ones. It is also true that I have never met a person who is excited about this plan, even among people who are excited about Clinton in general.”
So this is the problem with the ideas wonks create. They are Rube Goldberg contraptions – like Obamacare. Complicated, and hard to defend.
Single Payer is simple. Free College is simple. The reason people like Clinton don’t like them is for big government, and always try to talk about public-private partnerships and other such crap.
I think the young see through it – they see these complicated ideas are really nothing more than symbolic – designed to avoid the obvious answer.
