Comments by "Harry Stoddard" (@HarryS77) on "Bernie Sanders Exposes Pete Buttigieg’s Laughable Logic" video.

  1. There's also the fact that any means-testing program is going to have to establish and maintain a bureaucratic structure to means-test applicants which is 1) going to cost money, perhaps more than it costs to send a few rich kids to school, and 2) will inevitably restrict the service further by creating another obstacle for the poor. We already have a lot of grants and scholarships for college that children of poor and working class families don't access because they don't have the institutional knowledge, often of how to know that the grants exist, let alone how to apply, fill out the forms, etc. You can try to individualize the problem and say, So what, that's their problem, or cite your own experience working the system. But we have data on this, and the data shows it's not an anecdotal problem. It's a systemic problem. If the purpose of those grants or similar programs is to enroll more people in school, and they're not able to fulfill that purpose because they themselves constitute an obstacle to enrollment, then they should be replaced by a system that increases access, and that's exactly what a universal free college tuition program does.
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