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  9. ScootMagoot46 first of all it would cost a lot more than $60 billion a year, there are 16 million people enrolled in a college, a $60 billion budget would less than $4000 a year for each student, and most schools charge in the mid $20,000. You also have to make sure that the budget for college stays stable in the future, which would mean cementing a program that would cost over hundreds of billions of dollars every year. Not something likely to get passed in today's political climate and with our current deficit spending. You then also will have to deal the influx of people applying for free college, which would stretch funding, you also have to deal the colleges just raising prices. One of the reason colleges are so expensive today is because students can now widely take out large student loans, and so if everyone can get big loans then colleges will be able to jack up prices. This would mean that short of the federal government actually nationalizing all the universities, in order to avoid a nationwide increase in college tuition or government takeover, it would probably have to be done at a state level where much greater progress has been shown, like the UC and CSU systems for instance. You have to work out deals with private colleges and state colleges, You then also have to think about allocating money to build new colleges, creating a larger supply to address today's huge demand for colleges and lowering prices. All of this would much more complicated then simply saying college is free now. It would make much more sense to have a national federal program that works extensively with the states to get everyone access to top quality community colleges, with certain requirements like required classes in order for the government to pay for your tuition. This would be much easier and cheaper, more accessible to the population, and a great stepping stone for low income families, sho go to community college for 2 years, and then transfer to a 4 year University to complete their bachelor's degree, saving a lot of money and making further government programs easier to transition into. Baby steps.
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