mbewane
Knicks: 93 til infinity
Can we get some perspective and know how much the winning the war () in Afghanistan and Iraq cost?
A lot less.Can we get some perspective and know how much the winning the war () in Afghanistan and Iraq cost?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314A lot less.
The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.
...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.
The actual cost of govt. initiatives like this always exceed initial estimates...and by no small margin.
I should have specified American initiatives, the most recent being Obamacare for example.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.
And? That's simply math. The point is that the trillions spent on that useless war would be better spent on education....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.
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.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.
Not sure what this means... but I agree... I think.And? That's simply math. The point is that the trillions spent on that useless war would be better spent on education.
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.
poster of the year braking it down for nikkazA 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
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?