FREE HIGHER education would be an amazingly good stimulus policy.
It would put some people to work and it would take many people off the unemployment rolls, too.
In the longer run we'd have a more educated productive workforce, too.
But that makes too much sense.
It will never happen.
It would do no such thing. Free higher education would have no more of an effect than free primary education. The existence of buildings, the number of filled seats, have nothing to do with education. We would have the same illiterate dolts in college as we have in high school making the same demands for social promotion.