At a recent Bronx townhall meeting, NY-14 congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declared in a fiery, finger-wagging statement, “I never want to hear the term free stuff again.” By “free stuff,” she’s referring to a plethora of no-cost-to-the-consumer campaign promises concerning college tuition, health care, and subsidized housing. Later she tweeted, “Public education, libraries, and infrastructure policies are not free stuff. They are public goods and they are worth investing in, protecting, and advancing for all society and future generations.” She’s right about one thing — libraries, K-12 public education and infrastructure are not free. These things are provided thanks to public taxation. She’s dead wrong about college tuition, health care and housing; these are not public goods, they are not […]
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