Sounds good to me! Pay for it all! If the ultra wealthy and mega corporations would pay their fair share of federal taxes it could all be doable. We're the only large economy on the globe that doesn't have socialized medicine, so that would be a start. If we were able to take the bloodsucking Pharma companies off the table there would be a fuckton of disposable income to go around. 20% of our expenses and 4.2 trillion dollars a year would now be in our pockets and nobody would have to worry about going into bankruptcy because they needed their appendix removed.
I would be all up for a tuition free two years at a community college too but I'm afraid we need to start again from the bottom and start coming up with some solutions there first. I know what doesn't work is banning books and forcing teachers to lie to their students about racial and gender issues in order to create a bunch of mind numb little nazis.
It also doesn't help when the GOP gives state tax money to their wealthy donors to build and fund charter schools filling them up with unaccredited instructors and entitled little rich kids whose parents could afford a tuition anyway.
I can't speak for the other trades but my Carpenter training school is free to anyone as long as their dues are paid, which at maximum Journeyman level are 33 bucks a month. It's cheaper dues for an apprentice and you work while you go to school for the four year program, wages and dues increasing each year until journeyman status is reached. As things stand now, a journeyman can easily eclipse 100k a year in gross wages alone with a great health care program for themselves and their families.
Well, school is not actually "free". For each class you sign up for you give them a check for 25 dollars to reserve a spot and as soon as the class is completed, they give you the check back and you can use it for another class or rip it up. They only cash it if you don't finish the class and even then, that is subject to the circumstances for your absence.
General hygiene products are usually available at food banks if you ask for them, so we already do that. Glasses and contacts would be part of a comprehensive healthcare plan along with.dentistry.
Now you're getting the idea!!! Good for you!
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