Quote:Sure, when did the ability to make a phone call become the governments responsibility or the tax payers duty to fund? How is welfare drug testing humiliating the poor? Almost every employer drug test employee's is that humiliation?

 

Quote:You like that free word, it's not free someone's paying that bill. In your world that would be everyone working is paying for the scholar to live off the public dollar and earn 10 degrees. Why would anyone work if that's the case?

 

Okay, so you take away poor people's phone. How does that help them get out of poverty, again?

 

Why would anyone work? Because going through college is work, and living expenses isn't meant as "they get party money". If someone really does think that learning is their calling then I don't care, that's fine, they should be able to live in their student apartment and take college courses for their whole life.

 

As for the rest, it wouldn't be free to society, but an educated populace creates a net benefit for society, so from the perspective of actual cost versus benefit, making education "free" for everyone would actually make it "free" for society, or even less than "free".

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