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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Free college tuition is just a huge give away to the middle and upper classes, its up there with making mortgages tax deductible in terms of a pointless waste of taxes.
Making certain courses or apprenticeships that a country needs, more nurses or plumbers say, and thus benefits the economy, is very useful but paying for mediocre students to get average degrees in communications or sociology is just a waste of taxes
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Yep. Free college won't do anything to help the 50 per cent of young adults who have no interest in (or need for) college.
Free college
is a popular idea with the college-educated upper-middle-class - a hugely influential demographic in the Democratic Party. Remember, they're the ones who kiboshed Obama's plans to tax college savings.