You quoted an article from the Atlantic with a simple napkin level calculation.umm yeah it is. why do you continue to speak on things you have no idea about?
or are you that much of an ideologue that you have to resort to alarmist scare tactics on message boards?
Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free
the cost is about three months of pentagon spending and less than four months of what we waste on administrative costs by not having a single payer health care system
Big fail
America has the best colleges in the world.
Hands down.
So you're talking about making what "free"
All public institutions? Well we're going to need to address some of these overheads then.
And on top of that, research is going to have to be readdressed
And don't compare the pentagon's expenditures to college. The pentagon's budget isn't some joke that you get to toss around to pretend to be more "liberal"
Being "anti-defense" isn't cool. Its not cute. It doesn't show awareness. Its myopic and immature. Its not a political football. Its indicative of the success and dominant of your society.