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Two-Thirds of Americans Support Free College Tuition
NBC News ^ | August 1, 2016 | Martha C. White

Posted on 08/01/2016 12:40:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

This might be an idea whose time has come: Nearly two-thirds of Americans are in favor of free college for everyone, and about three-quarters think at least some people should be eligible for free college, a new survey shows.

As the labor market increasingly benefits the better educated, and as college education and earnings potential become more tightly linked, people are coming around to an idea that seemed radical until very recently.

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders touted the idea as a central plank of his primary platform, and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton recently announced her own version, which includes a household income cap of $85,000 that rises to $125,000 in the future, while Republican nominee Donald Trump has not released a detailed plan to address tuition costs....

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TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2016issues; 2016polls; democrats; education; educationfunding; hillary; socialism; taxandspend; tuition
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To: 2banana

What these fools don’t realize is that they’ll actually be paying for all of this FreeSh!t, through to their golden years.


61 posted on 08/01/2016 1:20:11 PM PDT by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Then colleges should be like Roach Motels. Everyone gets in but fewer get out.


62 posted on 08/01/2016 1:22:03 PM PDT by ex-snook (The one true God sent Jesus here to show us the way.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

2/3 of Americans would probably approve of everybody getting a check in the mail for $50,000 too. It does not means we should do it.


63 posted on 08/01/2016 1:22:21 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

The saying goes like this.....

“A democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for supper.”

“Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the results.”


64 posted on 08/01/2016 1:23:55 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hell No, DNC, We Won't Vote For Hillary!)
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To: Travis McGee

Brilliant analogy!


65 posted on 08/01/2016 1:27:06 PM PDT by eljodon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Public College tuition is pretty cheap - it’s the fees that are the biggest expense.

Bernie barking for free tuition is disingenuous to his minions, as if it will miraculously solve all ills.
Most state university tuition in my area are less than $1000 a semester, it’s the fees that go into the multi-thousands.

Progressives aren’t screaming for Free-Fees. That’s their bread-and-butter.


66 posted on 08/01/2016 1:29:02 PM PDT by libertarian27 (FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
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To: central_va

“In the old days you could work your way thru school and be debt free on graduation. That isn’t possible any more.”

That may, or may not, be true. When I started college (1964) many of my peers and I were willing to “paygo,” to borrow a recent political term.

We worked full time and attended college part time or worked part time and attended college full time. One could work full time for a year and take the year off from classes. There was no law that one had to attend college full time and continuously until the degree was completed. But now there is that whole immediate gratification thing...


67 posted on 08/01/2016 1:30:13 PM PDT by mouske
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To: PaulyPaul

“Nothing is free! Just another way to keep as many Americans hostage to leftist indoctrination as possible — with the added bonus of further soaking the rich”

Generally not in favor of soaking the rich but since the rich are destroying our borders, funding leftist media , building left wing foundations and spending the countries money since the seem to have their taxes lowered over the past 30 years since it is obvious the rest of us have no say in anything I am now very much in favor of soaking them until things change. Nobody here can deny that rich liberals should pay taxes and even a lot more taxes but given the fecklessness, treachery and duplicity of the Republican country class they are just as deserving of paying them as their Democrat friends.


68 posted on 08/01/2016 1:33:36 PM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bankrate.com provides no data on how their survey was conducted. Until shown otherwise, I’ll have to assume it was a self-selection operation on a website visited by borrowers. They’d prefer free money — who’da thunk it?

They forgot to ask: Are you willing to pay for someone else’s tuition every year for the rest of your life, whether or not the others are serious students, studying courses likely to result in employment/tax-paying, etc.?


69 posted on 08/01/2016 1:34:02 PM PDT by Chewbarkah (o)
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To: jospehm20

And free porn too. Don’t forget the porn.


70 posted on 08/01/2016 1:36:47 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Dats all I can stands 'cuz I can't stands no more!''-- Popeye The Sailorman.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

They probably should be getting their college education for free, because 90%+ are sure as heck not learning anything useful, and are ending up with useless degrees and a lot of debt.


71 posted on 08/01/2016 1:40:24 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why don’t you throw in a free trip to Tahiti while your at it, and don’t forget the free French lessons!


72 posted on 08/01/2016 1:41:29 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I call B S on the poll results reflecting any accuracy.

If you consider that close to 50% of people (maybe more now?) rely on some type of entitlement program or welfare benefit, then those 50% probably do think college should be free. Then throw in half or more of those who are actually IN college and those who are in high school, and you might be approaching two-thirds.

Pretty scary.


73 posted on 08/01/2016 1:43:27 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nope.


74 posted on 08/01/2016 1:58:40 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
You get what you pay for if your spending your own money. I'm all for colleges making connections with businesses where a student would work for the business one semester and then take classes the next. If you don't work you don't eat learn.
75 posted on 08/01/2016 2:04:53 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: areukiddingme1
If you think college is expensive now, just wait until it's free

No kidding. The colleges will know how to do this. Keep tuition relatively low, so those getting it for free are getting less for free. Then boost Room and Board, Activities Fees, Lab Fees, Registration Fees,......... Have the "free" part be lecture halls with hundreds of "students" with options like classroom education extra.

This will turn public colleges and universities into cesspools. Any attempts to keep up standards will be met with whining about "diversity". Freshman classes will be total zoos, filled with students hanging out because it's free. Free means there's no need to get high enough grades to maintain scholarships, etc.

Besides all that, it will increase the problem that we're becoming a nation of perpetual children. Young adults will be able to hang around and accomplish nothing for a few more years.

76 posted on 08/01/2016 2:06:16 PM PDT by grania
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
STUPID PEOPLE!! The only reason that college costs so much is because of the GOVERNEMNT INVOLVMENT!!

FREE MY ASS!!!

77 posted on 08/01/2016 2:07:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: grania

I support free gun zones.
Come into the zone, get a gun free.


78 posted on 08/01/2016 2:07:52 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The University from which I'm about to retire went for more than a hundred years with no tuition. That's right, zero. Forbidden by law from charging it.

Now, the fees...the fees were a killer...

79 posted on 08/01/2016 2:13:53 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I certainly support lower tuition and the implementation of Web learnin’ for those subjects where it is appropriate. Free is probably too low to promote students to be able to appreciate the boost to education that they are getting. $60/credit hr sounds like a good upper bound.


80 posted on 08/01/2016 2:16:15 PM PDT by Paladin2 (auto spelchk? BWAhaha2haaa.....I aint't likely fixin' nuttin'. Blame it on the Bossa Nova...)
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