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Bernie Sanders

MineralMan

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6. Taxing stock trades would also require enabling legislation.

Reply to Autumn (Reply #5)

Tue May 19, 2015, 01:25 PM

May 2015

Not possible in any near future time I can imagine.

Bottom line: College is expensive. Someone is going to have to pay. Shifting the payer to the government is unlikely to be something that can happen, and taxing stock trades will be a very, very tough sell in Congress.

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Free college tuition for all! says presidential candidate Bernie Sanders [View all] cal04 May 2015 OP

I'm not sure how that could be implemented, really. MineralMan May 2015 #1

Yes it is. Obama feels that community college should be as free as high school. Autumn May 2015 #3

Yes. I remember Obama saying that. MineralMan May 2015 #4

Of course they can't, any idiot knows that. They are plenty of ways this could be paid for Autumn May 2015 #5

Taxing stock trades would also require enabling legislation. MineralMan May 2015 #6

Bottom line: Legislation can be passed. I have some things to do so you have a nice day. Autumn May 2015 #8

California colleges salimbag May 2015 #2

I went to a California University in the 60s. MineralMan May 2015 #7