Amy Klobuchar on no free 4 year college

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56. I see the key phrase as "for all"

If you fail high school, you shouldn't be in college, free or paid (athletic scholarships should be a relic of the past). If your family has a post-tax income of $500,000 or more, unless you have five kids in Ivy League college at once, you should be able to afford tuition, room and board. I inherited some cash from my parents' estate, and I used ALL of it for my children's college education (barely covered it). Maybe my income couldn't cover it, but the inheritance did, and I wasn't going to deprive some other deserving kid of a scholarship if I had the means to pay and he/she didn't.

As far as college tuition is concerned, I think Marx was right: "from each according to his ability to each according to his needs." It wasn't free for my or my family, but we didn't need it. College isn't free. The buildings need maintenance, the professors need salaries, research needs to be funded, the library needs a librarian, and a LOT of etc. You can confiscate the net worth of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and not come close to providing "free" college tuition for every college student in the USA for even four years. About 16 million college students in the USA, take the average in-state tuition of around $10,000 times 4 and that's around $640 billion unless I missed a zero somewhere.