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As long as I’ve declared my opposition to Bernie Sanders’s candidacy for president of the United States, I want to discuss briefly what I believe is the goofiest notion of the Vermont U.S. senator’s campaign platform.<\/p>\n

He is promising to provide a “free college education” for any publicly funded college student in the United States of America.<\/p>\n

I have tried to figure that one out. I cannot get there.<\/p>\n

As near as I can tell, there is no such thing as “free college.” Such a pledge reminds me of the motel marquee that offers guests who stay there “free cable TV” and “free hot breakfast.” I always chuckle and think, “Who are they kidding? They’re hiding the costs in the room rate.”<\/p>\n

Free college is a non-starter. It cannot possibly be enacted, given the costs that public colleges and universities have to cover. Absent student tuition and the attendant fees that go with a college education, these institutions cannot possibly provide the kind of education they are able to offer.<\/p>\n

As for the “free” aspect, how do we fund these institutions? With more tax revenue!<\/p>\n

I offer this rebuke of Sen. Sanders’s pie-in-the-sky promise as one who attended college with help from Uncle Sam, courtesy of the GI Bill offered to military veterans. That “pre-paid” college assistance allowed me to avoid acquiring the crippling student loans that so many students have to bear when they finish their schooling and head out into the working world.<\/p>\n

This notion of offering “free college,” though, in my view is a serious head-scratcher.<\/p>\n\n

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