Iowa Dad Questions Backwards Logic of Warren's 'Free College'
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Iowa Dad Questions Backwards Logic of Warren's 'Free College'

To the left, rewarding people who did the wrong thing is a solid policy.

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Iowa Dad Questions Backwards Logic of Warren's 'Free College'

On Tuesday, a video of an Iowa father confronting Senator Elizabeth Warren about her "free college" plan went viral on Twitter. In it, the father told Warren that he had saved his money to put his daughter through college debt-free. He had skipped vacations, limited spending. He did everything right. He then asked her if he would get the money he spent on his daughter's college back.

Warren simply responded, "Of course not."

The father then proceeded to ask her why she's rewarding bad behavior, why she's rewarding people who took out loans they cannot pay back, went on vacations and bought new cars while owing money in student loans.

When Warren tried to shake his hand, he responded, "That's alright," and left.

Warren's plan represents the disturbing new trend now seen by the radical left; good is bad and bad is good. This is reflected in socialist policies such as free college. To the left, rewarding those who were irresponsible and took out loans they cannot pay back is a solid policy. Raising taxes on the wealthy, those who worked hard and saved their money in order to pay off the debts of others is morally correct, in their eyes. Virtuous, even. Warren is buying the votes of debtors.

See, debt doesn't just "disappear." College isn't just magically "free." Those costs must go somewhere. In this case, they show up in your annual taxes. If Senator Warren gets her way, the wealthiest classes will be taxed so heavily that they'll likely take their wealth elsewhere. The wealthy will cease to exist. The citizens will slowly become the same level of poor, while the politicians remain rich, perched on their ivory towers. A true socialist dream.

Prominent economist Thomas Sowell once said, "I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."

Well said.

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