Originally Posted by
Grapemask
When you don't want to derail a thread, but there's so much "funny how on healthcare, you say exactly the opposite" nnngghhhh.....
But on topic, as for college, you could make college free just by taking a hard look at those colleges and how they spend their money. Nearly all public universities are structured like businesses, pulling in millions of dollars from research grants, donations, sports (dear lord they do, from sports), and other pursuits, and a massive amount of that money goes to pay the non-teaching side of the universities. For example Georgia school presidents make in the millions of dollars, certain sports staff members make millions - teachers, of course, make considerably less, and staff often make near minimum wage, and anuual raises are often frozen (while the president and friends continue to get bi-annual multi-digit pay bumps).
But if you balanced the non-academic side to be proportional to the academics, you could pay for every student at those schools. No military spending cuts required.