Bernie Sanders Urges Cuomo to Raise CUNY Professors’ Pay
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Most countries that offer universal care eg, UK, France, Canada, Germany, ... have high cigarette taxes to pay for health care costs. The Federal US tax is about $1.
"In fact, public investment in higher education in America is vastly larger today, in inflation-adjusted dollars, than it was during the supposed golden age of public funding in the 1960s. Such spending has increased at a much faster rate than government spending in general. For example, the military’s budget is about 1.8 times higher today than it was in 1960, while legislative appropriations to higher education are more than 10 times higher.
In other words, far from being caused by funding cuts, the astonishing rise in college tuition correlates closely with a huge increase in public subsidies for higher education. If over the past three decades car prices had gone up as fast as tuition, the average new car would cost more than $80,000" http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/the-real-re...
As far as Education Costs and Medical Care Funding, are you under the impression they are not related? Since the passing of the ACA and the Federal Government take over of student loans, the billions in interest paid on student loans now funds Obamacare, with the aptly named American Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care_and_Education_Reco...