By DANIEL CHAITIN (@DANIELCHAITIN7), Washington Examiner

Sen. Bernie Sanders got an earful from a Wisconsin voter about his "ridiculous" tenure and "absurd" college tuition ideas during an MSNBC town hall event Monday evening.

When asked by MSNBC's Chris Hayes about the former Democratic presidential candidates' campaign proposal for free college tuition, Mary Magdalen Moser, a Wisconsin voter, said "that's the moment I stopped listening, when you said that because that is so absurd."

"Who is going to pay for it? Why don't you address how college tuition has skyrocketed 6,000 percent since the 1980s," Moser said. "You can't have an industry where once you have a seniority level it is impossible to fire you. That's ridiculous. No other industry has that type of protection. That needs to go. Tenure needs to go."

Should all Americans have equal right to a college education? @BernieSanders & WI voter argue at town hall #inners https://t.co/LeW1E5cNXw — All In w/Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) December 13, 2016

Sanders fired back that he doesn't agree that tenure needs to go, and while he conceded tuition has "gone up a lot," he said her claim that tuition has gone up 6,000 percent is not true.

According to the Department of Education, the annual increase of college tuition from 1980 to 2014 grew nearly 260 percent, rising from $9,438 to $23,872 for fulltime students (factoring room and board, tuition and fees).

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