It’s vote-buying time again, and First Lady Jill Biden was hard at it on Saturday in the swing state of Arizona where she told graduates at Mesa Community College during a commencement address that “community colleges should be free in America.”
“I teach at a community college for the same reason students go to community colleges. They’re flexible and meet people where they are. And, as my husband, President Biden, says, they provide the ‘best career training in America,'” she told the students.
She quickly segued into talking about the college’s “Promise” program which helps kids with low incomes go to school tuition-free or at a reduced rate.
“Community colleges should be free in America,” she said.
Buying votes
Joe Biden campaigned in 2020 on making community colleges and tech schools free, but the divided Congress was not going to go for that.
Dangling free college tuition under students’ noses is not the only way the Biden administration is trying to buy votes.
The president has instituted every kind of student loan forgiveness program he can think of via executive order even though such programs have already been struck down by the Supreme Court in June 2023.
He’s hoping it doesn’t really matter whether anyone ever actually gets student loan forgiveness, as long as they think they’ll get it if he stays in office.
The result: higher taxes
People with college degrees should be smart enough to know that the government can’t sustain any more debt than the more than $34.5 trillion it already has.
Furthermore, student loan forgiveness programs force people who never even went to college or who already paid off their loans or paid their own tuition to pay the loans of those who did–how is that fair.
The end result of any forgiveness programs will be higher taxes, which those students who had loans forgiven will pay for as long as the taxes exist.
While community colleges do provide training for some jobs in high demand like trades, in many cases they just offer associates degrees for students that move on to four-year schools.
It seems like free tuition programs ought to at least target needed jobs and not subsidize more women’s studies degrees.
But in all likelihood, the first lady is making more empty promises that won’t be kept by her doddering husband even if he does manage to get re-elected for another four long and gaffe-filled years.
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Author: Jen Krausz
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