How Will the Democratic Candidates Pay for More Affordable Education?
Today’s college students face a choice between Bernie Sanders, a kind of Democrat who wants to make tuition free, and Hillary Clinton, a real Democrat who wants to make tuition kind of free. Both candidates have ambitious proposals, but how do they plan to pay for them?
Bernie Sanders:
- Making devastating cuts to popular government programs like “the War on Drugs,” and “the War in Iraq”
- Requiring just a few years of work as part of Gulag-Study program
- Offering a four-year study abroad program in European countries like Sweden and Germany
- Reducing history textbook costs by taking out most of the pages about Stalin, Mao, and Castro
- Something about billionaires and the big banks on Wall Street — hold on, we’re trying to remember it. Whatever he said, it was super inspiring
- Reforming inefficient state university model by consolidating all public colleges into one central campus at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
- A couple more fucking Phish benefit concerts oughta do it
Hillary Clinton:
- To compete with Sanders’ free tuition plan, Hillary will now allow students to describe what they hate most about student debt in up to five emojis
- Overthrowing unfriendly college presidents in order to refinance loans under more moderate “Contra Deans”
- Personally asking the banks that hold your debt to go easy on you this time
- As a certified Badass slay queen, Clinton has the Constitutional power to hit your student loan bill with a big, official stamp that says “DGAF”
- Legally designating all state and federal prisons as universities, solving both the college tuition and mass incarceration problems at once
- Taking out student debt’s stronghold in Iraq and Syria
- Watch her whip. Now watch her nae nae