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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I was trying to make it sound accurate. The devil in the details there is "lot." I have no issue with progressive taxation. I just have a problem with where brackets start progressing most aggressively. The heart surgeon down the street who makes $700k but has $300k in student loans isn't Croesus.
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This person’s annual income is more than twice his debt. His debt is irrelevant and he is, in fact, quite well off.
I mean, literally everything is wrong with how we do higher education and health care, and he should neither have that much debt nor make that much money, but it’s the system we have and he’s a winner within it.
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Another "devil" there is who gets to decide what defines personal dignity? Bernie seems to think a free college degree is needed to have dignity. I'm not sure about that. When you get into "social justice," which is really just "economic justice," you find endless advocates with endless definitions of what the govt has a duty to provide to people, or how much it must police commerce to even the playing field for people and winnow inequality. What star chamber gets to decide what's "just"?
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Social justice is not at all “just” economic justice (although Bernie might make that claim).
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