This is getting students fired up so they will vote for Hillary in 2016
I don’t know, it may blow up in their faces because it’s getting a lot of people ticked off.
That is a good point. I wonder if Hillary is behind this movement of misguided, low-information students?
Note that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
Please consider the following from a related thread . . .
Other than the fact that the states have never done so, there is conceptually nothing wrong with the idea of the states delegating to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax the rich to pay for college for everyone who is eligible. This is evidenced by the following suggestion by Thomas Jefferson for the rich to provide such funding.
”The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.
”The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. . . . Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings [emphasis added].” Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
The problem with Jeffersons idea concerning free federal government anything as evidenced by todays unconstitutionally big federal government is the following. Federal government social spending in this post 17th-Amendment ratification era leads to unaccountable federal spending, free education funding a target for corrupt college and federal leaders in this example.