As the Democratic presidential candidates vied for votes in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary and other upcoming contests, Hillary Clinton has trumpeted a new line of attack against Bernie Sanders’s plan for tuition-free college. But her college funding plan may be vulnerable to the same critique.
Clinton’s campaign has increasingly criticized the Sanders plan as unrealistic because it would require states, including those with spending-shy Republican governors and legislatures, to cover some of the costs associated with eliminating tuition at public colleges and universities.
Sanders has proposed that the federal government, through a new tax on Wall Street financial transactions, cover on average two-thirds of the cost for states to eliminate tuition at their public colleges and universities. States would have to agree to cover the remaining third, according to a bill he introduced in the U.S. Senate last year.
Clinton has seized on Sanders’s requirement that states chip in money.
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