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Some good friends of mine are begging me to support Hillary Clinton. As a typical independent voter with a brain, and as such one of the controlling plurality of American voters, I need answers to some questions before I can consider doing so.

First, some background charts and graphs:

• US tuition and healthcare are both increasing faster than incomes (source), and

• The US middle class no longer participates in economic recoveries (source.)

So my current issues preventing me from supporting Hillary Clinton are:

1. Why do her higher education proposals not include anything like "debt free college" that she claimed on December 19? Why do they have no tuition caps, no caps on college administrator pay (which has been skyrocketing in the US as fast as CEO salaries), or any support for the salaries of adjunct faculty, who in many if not most cases are on food assistance?

2. Why on https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/health-care/ is "public option" in scare quotes instead of being hyperlinked to a bill or other implementation plan for financial analysis?

3. How can we reconcile her approval of international arms sales of guns used in US mass shootings (source)? This is a big one for me, almost as big as her statement in the first Democratic debate about wanting to send American troops to Syria against Assad and ISIS, both sides in an Iraq-like boondoggle. I am unable to reconcile it with her anti-gun stance.

4. If political donations don't influence her, why did she stop accepting money from private prisons?

Again, I am going to need answers to these questions before I consider supporting Hillary Clinton, and I believe all thinking independents, who represent the vast plurality of voters in this election, need to know too.