Bernie Sanders is too extreme for America

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172. You do know that the collective college debt recently became larger than collective credit card debt

The kids these days are having to deal with becoming indentured servants on a scale that many of them that graduated 10 years ago or earlier haven't had to deal with before. These kids deserve a break. I know that recently our state legislators here in Oregon have pushed through a program to make community college free for kids here starting in 2016. I've been very active in saying not only should future students get a break (since what they are doing is great for them!), but they also need to find a way to help even the playing field and help the younger generation that have already been put in huge debt through recent attendance of college relieve their huge lingering debts too. Especially I note since those who have been in the system the last four years are going to be newer voters in the coming 2016 election.

Why shouldn't those taxes be used to fund college tuition? Social Security and medicare (and I will be in those programs shortly now too) affect at the moment mainly older people. We should help them too, but that can be solved by removing the cap on payroll tax. College tuition and debt forgiveness could be fueled by speculative trading taxation. Wall Street trading should be rewarding companies that are good *investments* and not those that are the best fuel for casino gambling. It is the former kind of company that ultimately will hire these kids and turn them in to great parts of our economy instead of those in debt when they can't get jobs without education, and with the outsourcing of our jobs to other countries, or to "guest worker" programs like H-1B that basically fuel the economies of other countries when the money earned by those that get hired as cheaper labor instead send that money to other economies around the world instead of having that money spent here and fueling our economy here.

And the argument that those who aren't able to go to college funding this program they cannot participate in is also not inherently valid either, as that money could also go towards trade school education funding as well, for those that don't qualify for collegiate degrees. I believe Bernie has said as much at times when he's been asked about this.