Comment Free college degrees (Score 1) 107
According to the first source, the total spending by colleges in the USA is $700 billion.
That would make the spending the second largest federal government budget item, just below social security.
- What gets cut from the federal budget?
- Will the free college include free books, free housing, free transportation, free school supplies?
- How many dollars of free education at the college level will someone be limited to over their lifetime?
- Will there be age limits so that going to free college is not a retirement entertainment plan for people who are very unlikely to pay payroll taxes?
- Will there be limits so that someone cannot relocate to the USA, get a free education, then relocate to another country?
- Will the free college be means tested, so that a wealthy family's daughter or son does not get free education?
- Will the free college be limited to public universities, or can it be used to pay for buildings / salaries for religious universities?
Since the earlier comment was mentioned that payroll taxes will be higher, will their be a clawback if someone goes to college for free and either does not graduate, never works, or earns less than 1.5x minimum wage? The clawback being turning the free college which is unused / underused into a college loan or garnishment of wages / transfer payments.
Source A - Educational spending https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/...
Source B - Federal budget spending https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...
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