Presidential candidate John Edwards is offering more policy proposals than any other candidate in the primary and his ideas are winning loud applause from Democratic audiences.
The question is whether other voters will cheer when they see the price tag - more than $125 billion a year.
Edwards is quick to acknowledge his spending on health care, energy and poverty reduction comes at a cost, with more plans to come. On Friday, he proposed an $8 billion college scholarship program, an outgrowth of his “College for Everyone” idea in 2005.
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Edwards says fixing the country’s problems takes precedence over eliminating the deficit or offering middle-class tax relief like he proposed when running for president in the last election.
“I think for me, as opposed to the additional tax relief for the middle class, what’s more important is to give them relief from the extraordinary cost of health care, from gasoline prices, the things that they spend money on every single day that are escalating dramatically,” Edwards said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
