Posted on 06/08/2015 1:18:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
An aggressive push for what's being billed as "debt-free college" has galvanized progressive activists, putting Hillary Clinton in the position of either endorsing an idea that will be controversial or being criticized by liberals as too timid if she does not.
The proposal, which is also energizing Democrats on Capitol Hill, attempts to enshrine a promise that all Americans can attend a public college and get a four-year degree with little tuition cost and while incurring no student debt.
One of Clinton's Democratic rivals, ex-Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, has endorsed the idea.
Another Democratic candidate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has already authored a provision in Congress that would eliminate tuition costs at public colleges, although it falls short of the debt-free proposal.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
How many times do I have to say it....the Dems are going to buy this election for her with student loan forgiveness.
Clear discrimination against people too stupid to go to college. Stupid people of the world unite! Demand your free stuff!
1. Further drive up the ridiculous cost at private colleges
2. Create an even more stark divide between "elite" schools and public schools
3.Turn 4 year public schools into glorified Community Colleges.
Does that mean that all the communist professors will work for free?
That’s a hell of a price tag. What, in the trillions? Where’s that money coming from? The social security lock box?
nope from our 401 ks
Item 3 would worry me the most. I fear that even the STEM programs at our public colleges and universities will suffer greatly.
When every voter is a child you can’t defeat Santa Claus.
No, it means that the Democrat educrats can pay themselves anything they and the taxpayers will foot the bill.
Hell, why stop there?
Free Cadillacs, townhouses and guaranteed $1000 a week income for all!
What could go wrong?
It’s not debt-free - there’s no such thing- they merely want other Americans to pay for it.
It’s more properly called Marxism, and it’s brought many, many nations to their knees.
112% income tax rates will pay for it!
4. Make having a B.A. degree meaningless.
5. Make not having a B.A. degree a career-killer.
“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.H O W E V E R ...
Whereas Jefferson had noted that the states must first delegate to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes, something that the states have never done, corrupt Clinton is trying to establish free education outside the framework of the Constitution, imo, in order to win votes from low-information voters, voters who have probably never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers. And such voters will probably never find out about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers regardless of unconstitutional federal free public schooling if she gets elected president.
Should insanity be reclassified as a life style choice?
Well certainly - it is a right listed right up there beside the right to murder a fetus and the right to marry anything you desire as long as you love it. /s
They can pay it back out of the future greater income they are expected to have.
“No, it means that the Democrat educrats can pay themselves anything they and the taxpayers will foot the bill.”
Exempt me!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.