Free college is just another dumb libtard idea

[mota bhai 2,675]

I am fully in favor of helping students from poor families afford college without borrowing away their futures, especially as long as we've got this contrived ruling-class credential system, in which too many of us pretend it is legitimate to have an economy where only folks who satisfy four years of academic requirements in a classroom setting can prosper.

There are all sorts of increases in education spending I'd support for the sake of equality of opportunity. But the notion that all students should pay nothing for college is preposterous. It would've been scandalous for me to get a four-year education for free in a state with homeless people living on the streets, desperately poor immigrants working 363 days a year as day laborers, crumbling infrastructure, and a very near future with multiple cities literally going bankrupt.

Why do some progressives fail to understand that?

I share the goal of helping people to be educated for less than the going rate at many colleges today. But universal free college is a regressive subsidy advocated for by well-intentioned people who don't seem to understand that someone ultimately has to pay for university instruction.

Who?

At least portion of that cost should be borne by the person who benefits from the education for decades.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/universal-free-college-would-be-a-regressive-scandal/278201/

[Jacque67 7,328]

i read the whole article and the guy who wrote it is a douche-bag. He appears to have a chip on his shoulder coz when he went to college there were students wealthier than him, and because he spent years paying back his student loans he seems to resent the idea of the younger generation getting free college education.

Education should be free and available to everyone in a civilized society.

[Karee 4,191]

i read the whole article and the guy who wrote it is a douche-bag. He appears to have a chip on his shoulder coz when he went to college there were students wealthier than him, and because he spent years paying back his student loans he seems to resent the idea of the younger generation getting free college education.

Education should be free and available to everyone in a civilized society.

Who's gonna pay for it?

[mota bhai 2,675]

Who's gonna pay for it?

That guy over there.

[Karee 4,191]

That guy over there.

Exactly.

[Jacque67 7,328]

Who's gonna pay for it?

Everyone

[mota bhai 2,675]

Everyone

Why should everyone pay for something most people don't use or need?

[Karee 4,191]

Everyone

Another great idea, yet no one knows how it will be funded. We're nearing 17 trillion USD in debt, yet people still want to spend more money we don't have.

[JohnR! 5,495]

i read the whole article and the guy who wrote it is a douche-bag. He appears to have a chip on his shoulder coz when he went to college there were students wealthier than him, and because he spent years paying back his student loans he seems to resent the idea of the younger generation getting free college education.

Education should be free and available to everyone in a civilized society.

We can't afford to give our kids free education. We need the money so we can police the world. Wars are very expensive.

Besides, who needs an education when we have guns and NASCAR?

[Jacque67 7,328]

We can't afford to give our kids free education. We need the money so we can police the world. Wars are very expensive.

Besides, who needs an education when we have guns and NASCAR?

Yep. Next the selfish people will be suggesting we shouldn't have firefighters because anyone can throw a bucket of water on a fire.

[mota bhai 2,675]

"Everyone" already pays foir K-12. At what point do individuals begin to bear some of the burden of their own education?

[Karee 4,191]

"Everyone" already pays foir K-12. At what point do individuals begin to bear some of the burden of their own education?

I don't have any brats running around. Why should I even have to pay for K-12?

[JohnR! 5,495]

"Everyone" already pays foir K-12. At what point do individuals begin to bear some of the burden of their own education?

We all already do that when America's competitiveness in the world is diminished as a result of our lack of investment in education. We all are already bearing the burden of our own education, or rather, lack thereof.

[Jacque67 7,328]

"Everyone" already pays foir K-12. At what point do individuals begin to bear some of the burden of their own education?

an educated society reaps it's own rewards.

[mota bhai 2,675]

I don't have any brats running around. Why should I even have to pay for K-12?

In my opinion, it's justifiable for "everyone" to pay for something "everyone" (or almost everyone) will need.

A K-12 education is one of those things, as are roads and air control towers and national defense and the people who tell us about SARS etc.

A college education is not one of those things.