It seems the Democratic left, in this case the far left, is trying to out do itself when it comes to giving us “free” stuff.
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation on Tuesday to make public college tuition-free in the United States.
“We live in a highly competitive global economy and, if our economy is to be strong, we need the best-educated work force in the world. That will not happen if, every year, hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and if millions more leave school deeply in debt,” the Vermont senator and presidential candidate said in a statement released Sunday.
The plan will provide tuition-free higher education to students at four-year colleges, the statement said, and is modeled after the way many European nations handle the costs of college.
A reasonable person knows nothing is truly free. All those countries with free college pay for it through higher taxes on everyone. We don’t need everything to be free, we need it to be affordable.
In the case of college we need serious reforms in the method and structure of higher education. We need to rethink student loans and gear them to productive degrees with a reasonable prospect of the ability to repay and if there are quality controls on the loans, including completion of a degree in four years, the type of degree and the students academic record, we can lower the interest rate as so passionately championed by Old Liz
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