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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by mcny on Friday August 17, 2018 @07:07AM (#17781864)
> Wait, you are suggesting that medicaid, food stamps and low-income housing assistance should be offered to everybody?

Yes. None of these programs should exist if we can't offer them to 100% of the population. Both Democrats and Republicans use these programs as a vote bank and it polarizes our public discourse.

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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by wool_gather on Friday August 17, 2018 @08:37AM (#17782309)
Means testing is basically a compromise between the two extremes that you offer: fund them completely (by raising taxes) or drop them completely (because they're too expensive). That's the best you're going to get in a system where lots of people with vastly differing views have to agree on a single conclusion: a compromise that makes everyone a little bit unhappy.
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