WE ALREADY HAVE “FREE” TUITION. Fucking hell.
Every single person in America that cannot afford to attend public college (which is what all of this is about; it ain’t “free” Harvard), has been able to do so—almost exclusively because of Democrats, particularly in their respective State legislatures—due to taxpayer subsidies of some kind.
Pell Grants, for a prominent example, were effectively created in 1965 by Democratic Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island under Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded significantly in 1978 by Jimmy Carter.
The problem has been certain State legislatures allowing their public colleges to increase their tuition and dumping their State responsbility to subsidize onto the Federal government more and more. It’s a problem with Republicans in State legislatures, NOT a failure of any kind in regard to the Federal government.
Regardless, NO such proposal is moving anyone “further left.” That is a vacuous, bullshit bumper sticker slogan created primarily by the Sanders camp that stupid people on the left keep regurgitating.
Literally NOTHING Sanders has proposed is any “further left” than what the Democrats have been proposing—in one form or another—for at least half a century. Not one fucking thing.
In regard to “free” public college tuition, Sanders
EVEN STATED IT WASN’T ANYTHING NEW.
Saying anyone in the current or recent political arena is or has moved anyone “further left” is as vapid as anything Trump tries to get away with, so why the fuck are any of you repeating it?