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Trump regime and many right-wingers do not want any public funds spent on colleges, pretending the school of hard knocks is better. Instead of educating young people, they want them to be the farm laborers, low skilled workers and fodder for their forever wars. There- I said it.

No, it will not lower costs at the colleges. It will mean only the wealthiest will be able to afford college, which will mean lower enrollment and the destruction of the college system - which is the goal of the right-wing.

U of Cali schools used to be free. Guess who ruined that? Governor Reagan.

even as enrollment falls

If you think for one second that any kind of financing scheme is so simple as "if we reduce what we pay, they'll lower costs," you're literally too stupid to be allowed to administer anything.

This looks to me like the Right is simultaneously pushing expensive tech at universities and reducing the universities' funding -- smaller loans, axed research grants, and reduced full-tuition foreign students. The usual Republican thing, that is. They hate universities.

Cap tuition rates for all schools receiving federal subsidies.

This is basic economics. The more something is subsidized, the more expensive it gets. The real question is why we subsidize private university. We should instead fully fund public universities, which would have the *opposite* effect on private school tuitions as they have to compete.

Answer: it won’t