Many times in the news there’s talk about the younger people supporting Bernie Sanders, supposedly because he tells them he’s going to give them free college education. What he doesn’t say is how he’ll pay for it. Something will have to give.
As one who has traveled to many other countries, I’m aware of free college education for students there. But, workers pay at least 40 percent of their wages to taxes to pay for that education, which keeps the standard of living low for most of them. Many other countries have socialized medicine, too, and it’s paid for by very high taxes.
Another tradeoff is substandard medical care, while we are fighting all the time for better healthcare for all. In many other countries there are the very rich, and the very poor, with not many in between. Our politicians purport to want to change that here so that the middle class is more prevalent.
The very rich will have to be taxed more; then they argue that why should the very rich pay more than their share? The higher the income the higher the percentage of taxation should be. Question? Why should the middle class be the ones who pay for people living on the street to have new “homes,” for welfare babies, for healthcare for illegal aliens when they’re struggling to stay in the middle class and not slip to the poorer sector?
Our young people need to realize “there’s no such thing as a free lunch.”
JoAnn Gates
Battle Ground
