Y'all realize that if you 'make public colleges tuition-free', you're writing a blank check for college administrators to raise tuition rates to any level they want, and for tax-payers to be on the hook for trillions? It'll be like cost-plus contracts for the Pentagon.https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1069649195961905153 …
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Some folks are objecting: but gov't could just impose price caps, regulate, & micro-manage -- just like for public K-12 schools. So we could create a whole new lobbying industry & make public colleges just as inefficient, ideological, and un-innovative as public high schools?
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Yes, I'm fully aware that American universities, for all their faults, are very over-represented among the world's best, which is testimony to the dangers of gov't directly running higher education.
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increase the minimum wage to $15/hr