Students prefer socialism, but what if they were the ones who had to pay for it?
According to a recent Gallup poll, more young Americans would prefer living in a socialist country than a capitalist one.They like the idea of free education, free healthcare, and even free income. To receive these benefits students are increasingly supportive of higher taxes on the wealthy in order to pay for these progressive policies. But would they be supportive of similar policies if they were the ones paying for it?
Campus Reform‘s Cabot Phillips went to Florida International University in Miami to ask the students if they would support a “Socialist GPA” policy in which students with higher GPAs would be forced to “spread the wealth” and give some of their GPA points to students with lower GPAs.
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