Why Voters Shouldn’t Feel The Bern

Most college students only see the small portion of the United States’ problem, which is the continuous racial discrimination going on throughout the country. Yes, it is a big deal, but most college students and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders are going about the issue in the completely wrong way.

Not only will he continue to drive a wedge between races in our country, he will turn our democratic country into a socialist country. According to forwardprogressives.com, he is a self described socialist.

But to most college students, voting for Sanders would be ideal. Free tuition and taxing the rich to offset costs makes sense to college students.

Free tuition is every college student’s dream. We are constantly worrying about financial aid messing up our classes. But if college tuition was free, how are the professors, administrators, janitors, cafeteria ladies and librarians going to get paid? Bernie Sanders says: tax the billionaire class. But this plan is flawed because there is only so much wealth you can take from the billionaire class to fund his plans.

At some point, to create his plan, he would have to tax the middle class to offset the costs, eventually leading those who graduated from college (who will at one point become the middle class) to pay the costs of their free tuition.

If Bernie Sanders is elected and his plan for a free college tuition is put into action, the amount of people with college degrees would increase but the surplus of people with college degrees will out number the amount of jobs.

Students only see what Sanders “could” do for them, but little do they understand that the mentality of only focusing on one generation will eventually screw them over. Eventually, most of us will be in our parents’ shoes, we must focus on the future to understand that Sanders’ ideals will not benefit us in the long run. His plan would simply add to the deficit and would not actually contribute to diminishing it.