Yes, we need more professional college students and taxpayers forced to pay for them.
That has been considered seriously, including by some conservative economists. I guess I’m pretty stupid. I can’t figure a way it could work.
There is no free lunch.
This country needs an enema in the form of a good old fashioned tax revolt.
How about “affirmative action” for a “fair and balanced” academia?
Bernie Sanders has one job: to make Hillary Clinton look less radical to White middle class voters.
We’re not really investing in our youth and the future of our country unless his proposed system is pure merit. No need considerations or other stuff like legacy kids and affirmative action. I could almost vote for him if that’s what he proposes.
The Democrats will never give him their line in New York State in addition to his own party label, even though that is doable here as most know. So he could possibly draw from the Dem base. Won’t really matter. His whole candidacy is a bit surreal.
Cheapskate! What about graduate school?
while you’re at it Bernie... i’d like a free Ferrari 348 spider. just sayin’.
When Big Government makes higher education free, look out. They will determine which student will get the free education and the course of study they will take. Just like the old Soviet system.
you go Bernie~~ LOL
Subjects in Europe and the UK are already over educated. You need a degree just to work in a retail store as a clerk.
“l. The more the United States invests in an educated workforce, the greater our competitiveness on the international stage. ”
So what kind of results are we getting from college graduates today? And how will switching the financial costs to the taxpayer make a whit of difference in those grades and intelligence?
If states want to make some kind of deal with their residents paying higher taxes, so everyone can get a free degree, then let each state make that decision.
The only reason European countries can afford college for all is because they have a much higher overall tax rate, AND they spend almost nothing on military or any kind of R&D. There’s a reason companies with operations in the US tend to discover the most new drugs or whatnot. There’s a reason no one asks Britain to send their Navy to help after a devastating hurricane.
Also, European countries do a much better job of tracking people into not-college. Germany especially has a big vocational schooling, which is what the majority of the populace needs for a job. College is something you go to for higher education, or because you’re a rich spoiled brat. Not for the majority of jobs.