Should college be free/almost free

[SoonerTexan]

Do the US really have the money to do this even if we cut military spending? Without drastically raising taxes, that is?

I dunno, I've always viewed the awesome benefits of European countries side by side with their tax rates. You're paying for it somehow

[Vanquisher]

With a 600 billion+ defense budget? Yeah, ummm, there's money there.


Heidi

[Pollyanna]

No, not ever. I'd cut the entire department of education if I had my way. Huge waste of money.

[bobk]

No. If anything, we should increase the value of a high school diploma by having higher standards. It's shameful that 20% of U.S. high school grads are illiterate.

[MrsC]

Not free. Too many take advantage of it, don't end up in the right course and drop out. I think a couple of thousand a year is fair.
But for that to happen, we need to have higher standards, for high school and undergrad. The undergraduate degree is so devalued, pretty soon it won't be worth the paper it's written on.

[McPants]

I greatly enjoyed tax-funded "free" education in the country where I grew up and the population there is very happy with the way their system is set up.