Unsurprisingly, Obama’s plan is based on a popular Tennessee program signed into law by that state’s Republican governor, Bill Haslam, the AP reports—just as ObamaCare is based on a popular Massachusetts program signed into law by the state’s Republican governor, Mitt Romney, in 2006. Thanks, Republicans. As history and philosophy dictate, Obama’s plan has a good chance of gathering bipartisan support because it is consistent with the widely accepted idea that people have a duty to help those in need and thus that education (among other things) should be free—meaning, paid for by taxpayers at the point of a gun. If it is moral for government to force people to finance primary schools and high schools, why should government not also force people to finance colleges? After all, many people need a college education. As the AP paraphrases, Obama said a high school diploma is no longer enough for American workers to compete in the global economy and that a college degree is the surest ticket to the middle class. Americans who want to reverse the trend toward federal control of education must reject and condemn the notion that people have a duty to serve those in need; we must embrace and uphold the principle of individual rights, including the demonstrable fact that people have a moral right to keep and use the product of their effort as they see fit; and we must explain to all who will listen that a fully free market in education is possible, moral, and practical. —Michael A. LaFerrara https://theobjectivestandard/2015/01/obamas-free-community-college-scheme/
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:15:44 +0000
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