And the people with 8 kids should be getting the loud message that they have no business having 8 kids, if they can't afford to pay for their education and all their other basic needs, without taxpayer assistance.
Who the hell is "having eight kids?" Or is this just some hypothetical?
Is education a basic need? Probably. But you have to admit there is a terrible amount of diploma inflation out there - the need to have a piece of paper to prove you're somebody. It costs more to prove you're somebody these days than it used to, and you can't blame parents for inflating the value society puts on what is usually a pretty worthless peice of paper. To say they can't have 8 kids unless they can afford some some artificial pedigree is absurd. Government broke the education system, not the parents trying to provide a good start for their kids.