> First free access to higher education should be a cornerstone of a democracy as it is in many countries. I can somewhat agree with this in principle, but unf

> First free access to higher education should be a cornerstone of a democracy as it is in many countries. I can somewhat agree with this in principle, but unfortunately, the way it's worked so far in these USA is that the federal government jacks up their assistance in terms of grants and loans, and then all the colleges and universities jack up their tuition to be commensurate for everything the government just put in their pockets. So it's a zero-sum game and it's an ouroborous where the populace keeps voting free stuff for ourselves, and the cost of "free" just gets higher, and higher, and higher. The same thing happens for medical costs (even after the "Affordable" Care Act), so surely some sort of price controls could prevent these folks from bleeding Uncle Sam completely dry.