You Will Pay for "Free" College
https://home.isi.org/you-will-pay-free-college?utm_source=ISI+Website+Subscribers&utm_campaign=05ee327982-IR+Weekly_June+9&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3ab42370fb-05ee327982-93340273Politicians like to pander to interest groups by promising them supposedly free things: free medical care, free food, free cell phones, and so on. And since millions of your fellow young Americans go to college, naturally you hear politicians promising free higher education.
“Elect me,” say such politicians, “and I will relieve you of the horrible and unfair burden of paying for your education.” Lately they’ve tried to disguise their pandering by claiming that they just want to “strengthen the economy,” since young people with college debts aren’t able to buy houses, cars, or other big-ticket items.
“So” (such politicians continue) “by relieving students of having to pay, we will at the same time stimulate the economy while enabling many more young Americans to have ‘access’ to college, which will mean a better educated and more productive labor force.” What’s not to like?
Two things, actually.
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Complement with John Zmirak on the religious believer's campus survival guide, Jane Clark Scharl on the "wrong side of history" myth, and Russell Kirk on the purpose of the liberal arts.
