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In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders to unveil plan to guarantee every American a job [View all]JCanete
(5,272 posts)was going to tax the rich, and maybe that should have always been excluded from the plan,(to fund the education of those over a certain level of income), but I figured that they can go ahead and have that if it was a token of what was being taxed from them to pay for this program. I think Sanders and Clinton came to a reasonable intersection on this and I certainly wont shed any tears, but to pretend that this was a giveaway to the rich while not accounting for who we were going to need to pay for this plan, is not exactly accurate. Did it take too little and give too much of that back to them? I don't know the numbers. I could probably easily be persuaded that that's the case, since I agree they don't need any damn charity.
As to early education, well Sanders had a platform talking about these things. He also has a record opposing No Child Left Behind...how has that one turned out? Who has that sucked most for? Is it any surprise at all that that's what happened?