another tweet from bette midler on the death of the middle class

[orleans]

Link to tweet

[everyonematters]

1. yep

[SunSeeker]

2. Yup. The University of California used to be free. Now it's $30k per year.

At the UC system's inception, tuition was free for California residents, and continued to be until 1970. Then they starting charging a small "education fee." That fee slowly inched up, until it shot up in the 1980s, after 1978's Prop .13 tax cuts starved the state of taxes. https://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since-1868/

If you don't tax the rich, the burden falls on the middle class and poor.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Ronnie Reagan became Governor of CA in 1967

Connect the dots with the advent of tuition charges for residents in the UC system. My BS from UCLA 1973 and MPH 1975, I remember paying $99/trimester when I started as a freshman in 1969.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Could you explain your meaning behind this statement?

"that was a time when the "middle class" was 99% white home owners. As the middle class expanded to include more and more minorities and single women it's been dying ever since."

[EYESORE 9001]

5. The ultra-rich managed to survive those bad, scary times

and then began in earnest to ensure they own every fucking thing worth having. They aren’t rich or powerful enough to survive the changes coming their way, however.