Jon Stewart: The Dem Solution Has Always Been Subsidies, When the Gov’t Provides Endless Funds, Prices Rise

Sanders: “Highest-quality education, tuition-free. And now working-class families can’t afford to send their kids to college.”
STEWART: “But again, this gets to the Democratic solutions have never been to directly provide — it has always been a subsidy to the middle man.”
Sanders: “Absolutely right!”
STEWART: “But what happens is, when the government promises endless funds to insurance companies or private universities without any cost controls — and Trump seems to understand this — prices rise far beyond the rate of inflation. And we have seen it in tuition, we have seen it in pharmaceutical, and we have seen it in health care. So my question is, will Democrats recognize the poison pill that they have often placed into well-intentioned policy?””
Sanders: “Right, right. What they end up doing is coming up with very complicated proposals. You make $48,964, you will get this thing, make a dollar more, blah, blah, blah. Listen, we have to make it simple. In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, should health care be a human right? Yes, it should be. Should we have the best quality education in the world, from childcare to graduate school? Yes, we should.”
(Cheering and Applause)
STEWART: “Right. But these are — “
Sanders: “And how do you — “
STEWART: “Let’s get there.”
Sanders: “The question is — “
STEWART: “I’m writing this down, Sanders!”
Sanders: “The Republicans — you are getting violent here.”
STEWART: “I get excited when you are around!”
Sanders: “(Laughs) You know, what we need is a very simple, straightforward agenda, which says — by the way, this is really the sticking point — you’ve got to finally say to the oligarchs, who have never ever had it so good, they are making hand over fist, all right, you got to say to them, ‘Sorry, guys, a billion dollars is enough. You ain’t going to have $200 billion or $300 billion. Try to survive on a mere billion. You will start paying your fair share of taxes!”
(Cheering and Applause)