Dkos: No, Senator Sanders; YOU are out of touch (opinion piece)

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483. Free college is good in a vacuum but

because of substandard K-12 education, which Sanders didn't really address, taxpayer-funded free college essentially transfers wealth from poor minorities to middle to upper class whites, because the primary barrier to college attendance for people of color isn't cost, it's academic attainment, which is deeply impaired due to uneven K-12.

Yes, removing the cost element would certainly help (and I didn't like Hillary's initial plan, but since in this country you have to justify ANY AND ALL instances of social spending while we blow trillions on crappy jets, I understand why she shot low on it and the compromise plan at the convention was probably as good as we were gonna get)

As for 15 dollar min wage, neither of them go far enough, so if neither plan is a living wage everywhere (15 dollars is not really a living wage in the Washington DC area), it's better to go with the wage that is more likely to pass, especially since her plan was more like 12 dollars in Arkansas and 16-20 dollars in NYC, rather than a flat 15 dollar one.