"...Unintended Consequences
Following President Obama’s lead, there has been a growing movement among progressives to make community college “free.”
...In the end, regardless of jurisdiction, it’s the smallest minority that gets stuck with the bill: the individual taxpayer.
...Beyond the budgetary considerations, there’s also the moral hazard of which to be mindful.
When a good or service is free, a consumer tends to take less ownership of it.
...Some students would feel no pressure to simply walk away if it was “too hard,” nevermind the modest 2.0 GPA requirement.
...Affordability is not the culprit here.
Anyone above the “lower rungs of the economic ladder” who wants to go to a community college will sacrifice purchases that bring them short-term pleasure in order to improve their future.
This is not a scenario lacking in real-life examples.
In The Law, 19th-century French economist Frederic Bastiat said of such activism that
"the law has only two alternatives: permit … teaching-and-learning to operate freely … or … [take] from some … to instruct others, without charge. But in the second case, the law commits legal plunder by violating liberty and property..."'
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