This year’s "Million Student March" took place Wednesday on college campuses across America.
Activists called for tuition-free public college, the cancelation of all student debt, a $15 minimum wage for all campus workers and a divestment from private prisons by all colleges and universities.
One of the organizers of the march, Darletta Scruggs, joined Neil Cavuto this afternoon, and things quickly got heated.
Scruggs said that students are facing a crisis of debt, since the government no longer prioritizes quality, affordable education.
She asserted that if there's money to invest in improving our country's nuclear arsenal or prison system, then there certainly is money to invest in education.
Cavuto pointed out that the U.S. national debt is currently at $19 trillion, and her candidate of choice, Bernie Sanders, has admitted that these massive changes to the educational system can't be made without increasing taxes on both the wealthy and middle-class Americans.
Scruggs agreed with Cavuto that it's important not to just raise taxes, but also to see how those tax dollars are being spent.
"We're spending our money on wars, we're spending our money on tax breaks for big, wealthy corporations," Scruggs said. "This system of capitalism has proven itself illegitimate, and it cannot provide basic things like education, shelter, health care."
She also had some choice words for Hillary Clinton, calling the former First Lady "the candidate of Walmart, Wall Street and war."
Watch more of the heated back-and-forth above. |