I don't understand why the majority of you choose not to acknowledge the information in my OP.
What I chose to not acknowledge is your premise that throwing more money at education would somehow result in any tangible benefit.
The US already spends more money than any country on earth and has some of the poorest test scores for the students. Tons more money won't change that.
Anybody that wants to go to college can pretty much get a college degree nowadays. It isn't hard to do. All "free" tuition would do is water down the college degree to be next to worthless.
Besides, a tremendous number of shitheads in the country would use the freebie to hide from work and responsibility and the money would be wasted. Then you have the tons of worthless degrees that have no real market value.
Of course there is the simple concept of fairness. The government should never take money from one person and give it to another. That is thievery.
The money that given to the college student would be taken out of the productive economy and result in less jobs, economic growth and investments. .
"Free" college tuition is probably one of the worst "investments" the filthy ass bloated, debt ridden, corrupt, out of control government could ever make.
If you want to go to college pay for it yourself. I did.