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it wasn't that long ago that we were not a debtor nation, now we are....I didn't, but I paid a whole lot less tuition that today's college kids do now, and moreover made far more money than 99% of them can now, at least if you allow for inflation.
Actually, education should not be free, not even K-12. Everyone should pay something, or education is seen as free and therefore of little value. It should not be out of reach of anyone, however, and it should be possible to graduate debt free. We don't want to make schooling difficult to obtain if we want to have an educated population.
We do want to have an educated population, don't we? The alternative is to become like a third world country.
the govt can't keep spending for things we don't need with money we don't have and expect to retire our debt.