[viscountchocula]

"College is important - it’s why there is a cost to it."

What a strange way to look at it. Elementary, middle and high school is important, no? Roads are important. And parks. And scientific research. So much of our civic infrastructure is important without having a direct charge.

A fair trade-off would seem to be higher income taxes and free college or trade school. Would provide more ladders up for the disadvantaged and a stable source of revenue to fund it.

[j_walter]

The problem is that people want college for free...for everyone. No country in the world provides free college to everyone. You have a lot of stipulations as to who qualifies as we don't need the person who barely graduated high school at the bottom of their class to go to college. That is a waste for society and that person...as they will end up failing out of college and have wasted years of their life.