buttigifs:Moderator: Many of your colleagues onstage support free college. You do not. Why not?Pete

buttigifs:Moderator: Many of your colleagues onstage support free college. You do not. Why not?Pete Buttigieg: So college affordability is personal for us. Chasten and I have six figure student debt. I believe in reducing student debt. It’s logical to me that if you can refinance your house, you ought to be able to refinance your student debt. I also believe in free college for low and middle-income students for whom cost could be a barrier. I just don’t believe it makes sense to ask working class families to subsidize even the children of billionaires. I think the children of the wealthiest Americans can pay at least a little bit of tuition, and while I want tuition cost to go down, I don’t think we can buy down every last penny for them.Now, there’s something else that doesn’t get talked about in the college affordability debate. Yes, it needs to be more affordable in this country to go to college. It also needs to be more affordable in this country to not go to college. You should be able to live well, afford rent, be generous to your church and little league whether you went to college or not. That’s one of the many reasons why we need to raise the minimum wage to at least fifteen dollars an hour.Buttigieg says not going to college should be affordable | 2019 Democratic Debates (6/27/2019)This was one of Pete’s better answers. And his grounded responses like this are encouraging. He seems to be really good at not getting lost in the weeds, and focusing on the roots of problems, at least in a debate environment.(I would be more enthusiastic about him if he hadn’t said people who are incarcerated shouldn’t get their right to vote during incarceration. *le sigh* Granted, I can’t think of a candidate that doesn’t elicit some criticism on the same scale, so.) -- source link

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