Good! Then even more of our young Leftists will move up there.
So I expect their governments to sell their buildings and assets to pay for this? Or just suck more blood from the “easy marks”—aka taxpayers.
TUITION free. No mention about books, room and board, etc
As long as no Federal money goes towards making college “free” in these States I have no problem with it.
Make anything “free” you want. But put up the money yourselves from your own State taxes.
I thought California already did that? Or was it just ‘acceptance?’
Free College means me dipping into my retirement(which I busted my @$$ to put away) to pay for some snowflakes to take anti American Marxist classes taught by transgender loving useless POS who want to create a nation of ungrateful slobs.
Wow free college to train more McDonald’s workers.
For several years we had free tuition paid for by the lottery. At first it was full tuition until they started running out of money and now it is a little over 1/3 and they have tougher requirements. It’s hard to find data but the graduation rate is 30 to 45%.
When my DIL was in college most of the students were young women who didn’t pay a cent, most of them flunked out.
If states want to offer “free” college, they have a right to be stupid.
All that will change is who pays the tuition bill. Politicians who promise you something for “free” are con artists.
We have economic illiteracy in our country.
Actually there is a college which is free.
Cooper Union got an endowment some years back that included several large office building that make a profit. The cash they get is so much that they can afford to make everything tuition free. Oh, it’s an engineering school and it’s really hard to get in.
They should pass a law that make sit illegal to pay college professors anything at all. No remuneration for course work or research.
Because as soon as you start talking “salaries”, then college stops being “free”.
I’m sure the Left will support this. Free education is very important to them.
If you want to invest in your own future, you can invest your time in getting on-the-job experience, or you can get a loan and invest it as capital to start a business, or you can invest in getting a “useful” college degree.
Now then if college is “free” we know that actually means it is run 100% by the government, so then who determines if what a professor wants to “teach” is useful and needed and should be part of what students are getting “for free”? The legislators who voted for “free tuition”? No. The state executive branch department of education through it’s appointed head? No. Then who? Academia itself.
Now ain’t that a nice industry, when you can get the taxpayers to fund it 100% for you - for academia - and then the taxpayers’ representatives leave it 100% to run however you want.
THAT, not “the students” or their “education” is what “guaranteed college education for everyone” is 100% all about. It is all part of the Progressives utopian society of everything run by their experts in a permanent administrative/regulatory state.
Then the colleges raise their rates, and the states pay more, leading the colleges to raise their rates, and the states to pay more ..... repeat until end of world.
The crapper they teach nowadays schools should be free.
College students should be willing to invest in themselves, i.e., pay for college.
They could make college almost free by putting 90% of it online and then shutting down the liberal indoctrination centers. Leave open the universities doing real research and consolidate them.
I guess they're planning on no buildings, no supplies, and instructors volunteering their time.
Can't wait to see that one. /sarc
All they need is an endless supply of neutral wealth to exploit and a relatively small population.
That way they can live off the proceeds from selling to others, because transferring wealth within a closed system has inherent limits and only idiots (aka socialists) forget it as a rule.
Incidentally, this MIGHT be a line of logic for why it is wise to use tariffs and duties to support the government rather than income taxes, for the latter leech unproductively from the economy on which they depend while the former subsist by slowing the transfer of wealth out of a country.
Naturally a Limited Government and small government, rather than an Arbitrary Government demanding power in all circumstances whatsoever (as the federal presently does), greatly facilitates living within your means.
Tuition was free for Jr Colleges in California before the Democrats fully took over.
Does thos mean college staff will work for free?
Hahahaha. I know I know. It means the taxpayers will work extra hard.