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   "Although corporate media outlets have blasted presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for “living in an economic fantasy world,” his proposed plan for free tuition in public universities is hardly radical. To be funded by a modest financial transaction tax—0.5 percent on stock transactions and 0.1 percent on bond transactions—it’s essentially an older policy being reinstated to create revenue for a social program.

   Many countries, including the UK, France, Japan, India and Taiwan, already have similar taxes and the US had one until 1966. And a number of industrialized nations, like Germany, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and the Scandinavian countries, have instituted free college tuition without evident chaotic societal breakdown.

   And yet a flurry of media “experts” have rushed to denounce not only the financial tax as a means to fund college tuition, but the prospect of socialized higher education as a concept.

   Oddly enough, they present their fight against free higher education as advocacy for the poor..."

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http://fair.org/home/denouncing-free-college-in-the-name-of-the-poor/

Bernie Sanders Accepts Challenge to Kill TPP If Elected... Nothing from Clinton So Far

Accepting a challenge and passing it on ahead of primary voting in Ohio and elsewhere on Tuesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders vowed that if elected president he would refuse to present the contoversial TransPacific Partnership (TPP) agreement to Congress and asked his rival Hillary Clinton to join him in that pledge.

 Bernie Sanders Promises To Do Everything He Can To Stop the TPP  http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/05/bernie-sanders-promises-stop-tpp-senate-floor.html

Bernie Sanders: TPP Worse Than I Thought. It is not, nor has it ever been, the gold standard of trade agreements http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/11/05/tpp-worse-i-thought

45 Times Hillary Clinton Publicly Supported TPP, Which She Now 'Opposes' http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/15/politics/45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes/index.html

Chamber of Commerce Lobbyist Tom Donohue: Clinton Will Support TPP After Election  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/chamber-of-commerce-lobby_b_9104096.html

Stand with Bernie Against The Dangerous TPP Sellout  http://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/stop-tpp

"It is time for us to stop letting multi-national corporations rig the system to pad their profits at our expense." Bernie Sanders

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Bernie speaking at the #DemTownHall  in #Ohio  right now

Alt stream on the Clinton News Network  http://www.hulkusc.com/cnn-news-live-streaming/

and live audio with commentary by +The Young Turks  https://www.tytnetwork.com/live/