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Caldara: Nothing’s more expensive than “free” school lunch

denvergazette.com, Approved, Commentary, State / May 5, 2025 / colorado public schools, Education funding, Free Lunch Program, Government overreach, Personal responsibility, Socialism, Taxpayer burden

A key part of the planned march toward socialism is, of course, endless propaganda.

It’s not enough just to rely on the politics of envy. We need to take away those dangerous little opportunities where young people might accidentally experience the benefit of the free market in their fledgling lives. So how can we teach children to participate in class warfare, punish the productive by taking their stuff and that property rights and free exchange don’t exist?

Enter Colorado’s oversubscribed, already broke (as all redistribution schemes become) “free” school lunch program. Who could have guessed a $50 million take-from-thy-neighbor scheme would quickly cost $150 million?

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Grabar: Kamala Harris is poised to revive the worst aspects of FDR’s socialist agenda

At the Economic Club of Pittsburgh, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris recently said she would “engage in what Franklin Roosevelt called ‘bold, persistent experimentation,’” as he had told the 1932 graduating class at Oglethorpe University. But she did not mention FDR’s vision of “remaking the world,” which included fundamentally changing “our popular economic thought” to see to “a wiser, more equitable distribution of the national income.”