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    Education should not cost anything at all.

Bikeshedding!

Education always costs a great deal. Teachers need to be paid, schools need buildings, universities needs labs, etc.

The only question is how payments are organised: taxes, fees, some hybrid ... Whatever mechanism is chosen, somebody feels hard up and will seek to change it.

Yet, it's always the old paying for the education of the young, just like it is always the young paying the oldies' pensions.