Free Tuition Won’t Cure What Ails Higher Education

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Free Tuition Won’t Cure What Ails Higher Education
May 10, 2017 by Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill

So Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s “free” college tuition plan—the Excelsior Scholarship—is now reality. While the fanfare has died down, New Yorkers and policy watchers across the country are trying to discern how the new entitlement will help improve college affordability in the Empire State.

Yet tax-weary New Yorkers ought to be skeptical of free college because it won’t solve the problem. For starters, plenty of fiscal questions remain, one analysis from the Urban Institute suggested that free college proposals might ultimately benefit middle-income families the most by defraying the cost of tuition, rather than helping low-income students they are intended to support.

But leaving aside the numbers, here’s a deeper question: will taxpayers be getting what they pay for?

https://www.goacta.org/the_forum/free-tuition-wont-cure-what-ails-higher-education

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Here is how it works.  High tax, low growth states like New York pay to educate their youth, then after they graduate the youth leave the state for greener economic pastures in low tax, high growth places like Texas and Florida.  Those of you in Texas should be thanking New Yorkers for subsidizing your great economy.