Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make US Public Colleges Tuition-Free

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...and when it ends we will have a set monetary cost. Free education will continue indefinitely, reaching and surpassing it. The only question is how long will it take.
Lets not look at this gross underestimation of $62 billion, as a one time fee :heh: This is annual.

Even in LaLa land where it ends up costing us less up front, we can expect it to eventually catch the cost of the war.
 

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The actual cost of govt. initiatives like this always exceed initial estimates...and by no small margin.

Do you have an argument for that, though? Look at the overheads for Unis in Canada, for example. Tuition isn't free over there, but they're far more reasonable than they are here. Compare school to school rather than government to government.
 

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Do you have an argument for that, though? Look at the overheads for Unis in Canada, for example. Tuition isn't free over there, but they're far more reasonable than they are here. Compare school to school rather than government to government.
I should have specified American initiatives, the most recent being Obamacare for example.

But Unis and free tuition are apples and oranges. What is being suggested is completely free tuition.
 

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...and when it ends we will have a set monetary cost. Free education will continue indefinitely, reaching and surpassing it. The only question is how long will it take.

Even in LaLa land where it ends up costing us less up front, we can expect it to eventually catch the cost of the war.
And? That's simply math. The point is that the trillions spent on that useless war would be better spent on education.

I should have specified American initiatives, the most recent being Obamacare for example.

But Unis and free tuition are apples and oranges. What is being suggested is completely free tuition.
Nobody suggested completely free tuition. The author simply gave an estimate of what it would cost to make public college tuition free for a year.
 

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And? That's simply math. The point is that the trillions spent on that useless war would be better spent on education.
Not sure what this means... but I agree... I think.

I'd like to see none of that money borrowed in the first place.:manny:



Nobody suggested completely free tuition. The author simply gave an estimate of what it would cost to make public college tuition free for a year.
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A mere $62.6 billion dollars!

According to new Department of Education data, that's how much tuition public colleges collected from undergraduates in 2012 across the entire United States.

1-This only accounts for the number of students attending public colleges in 2012... by making it free, we should expect to see the number of people enrolling in college triple, maybe even quadruple.

2-Guaranteed govt. money will spur a rise tuition cost, and the increased number of students attending will bring along its own set of cost increases.

3-A large percentage(59%) of students who enroll in college dont graduate... Those tuition fees, would just be ate by tax payers, making the initiative extremely wasteful. Imagine a private company seeing that kind of return on investment :scusthov:

4- It doesnt address the issue of tenure, and sh*tty teachers in general.


edit: 59% dont graduate taking on debt and/or paying out of pocket... what do you think will happen to that % if education becomes free? :merchant:
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