Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Hot off the press! New Quinnipiac Poll! [View all]peggysue2
(10,828 posts)Biden has been talking about free, 4-year public college; this from Forbes
Democrat: Joe Biden: Free College
Biden has called for four free years of public college tuition in 2015, when announcing that he wasnt going to run in the 2016 campaign. Hes still talking about it, with a fairly detailed proposal he made in a speech last year. He thinks it would cost about $6 billion a year, and would increase the number of college students to 9 million. (I assume this means adding 9 million more a year, since there are already about 20 million students enrolled in higher education at any one time.) Hed pay for that through the tax code by eliminating something called the stepped-up basis loophole, which right now lets heirs evade capital gains taxes on inherited assets. I havent looked at his math, but for the moment lets take his word for it that this would produce enough cash.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden