Students actively voicing dismay over the exorbitant rise in the cost of becoming educated, and the dismal prospects they face upon graduating in today's US economy - dismal presently and long term - is a major development. Students must resist any and all GOP Trojan Horse effort at divide-and-conquor. Sane and humane treatment of the elderly, per Social Security and Medicare can coexist with reform of educational costs and stimulating the growth of decently paying jobs even with the value of a dollar being eroded while wages stagnate. We can have it all. It is not one against the other. That will remain true as long as the 99% do not allow divide-and-conquor Trojan Horse tactics.
Another GOP Trojan Horse, Okalahoma Sen. Coburn, here and here. He offers a band-aid for a major wound going to the heart of things. Sure, close a few loopholes and say, "Wow, look at that." But do it along with finally going back to the abandoned practice of fairly taxing the rich; not as if it is an alternative that will make fairly redoing taxation levels unneeded.
Reform is needed, and in all of this anti "tax the rich" whining from the 1%, they so far have managed to obscure the fact that the very modest proposals causing all of that vocal whining are aimed only to tax disproportinate income in a way better aimed at advancing the prosperity of all. I would go a step further, beyond reform of income taxes to again be more fair, and I would want to see a tax on obscenely excessive capital accumulations - tax the rich billionaires there too - as but another step needed and helpful in making us a fairer nation.
In closing, a screenshot from that older post already noted, to jog memories:
