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Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College
An anonymous reader writes with news about a White House proposal that would provide 2 years of free community college for good students."President Barack Obama announced a proposal Thursday to provide two years of free community college tuition to American students who maintain good grades. 'Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everyone who's willing to work for it,' Obama said in a video filmed Wednesday aboard Air Force One and posted to Facebook. He made the announcement as part of his pre-State of the Union tour and will formally lay out the proposal Friday in a speech in Tennessee. The White House estimated it would save the average community college student $3,800 annually and said it could benefit nine million if fully realized."
As in somebody else pays for it...
As usual, it's poor people providing subsidies for the rich.
Scholarships are one thing, but when you give free tuition to everybody, the rich don't pay when they could afford to and the working poor wind up having to pay more taxes to pay for the rich (who were previously paying for the good or service).
But, this is the very purpose of government - to privatize gains and subsidize losses (aka the rich get richer and the poor get poorer), so it's just what one would eventually expect.
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Back of the envelope calculations are roughly $35b/year to sponsor something like this.
What's bad is that the Republicans will fight against it for being too expensive, yet will give $100b a year to fight in a middle-eastern war.
The Democrats will fight against it for being anti-competitive to 4-year universities and get their campaigns funded by the for-profit college industry.
But in reality it ain't that bad. It helps to solve the student loan problem by having the first 2 years paid for, essentially halving the cost of a 4-year degree. Plus it could help churn out more trades professionals (HVAC, plumbers, welders, etc.)
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Republicans care about important things like weapons, mass surveillance, invasions--things that contribute to America's infrastructure, address unemployment, and make it a free and better place to live. What did college every do for anybody? A big waste, just like universal health care. Why should the poor get the same care as those who deserve it? America uses debt to finance important things. Those weapons sitting in silos now that cost billions will do a lot more for America than a college educated citizen ever could. Yeah, I know education only costs a fraction of an invasion, but college is a waste and against American principles, unlike an invasion.
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