Rep. Grayson Wants U.S. To Pay Every Penny Of College Tuition

Rep. Grayson Wants U.S. To Pay Every Penny Of College Tuition

Posted by: Javier Manjarres on January 21, 2015

During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama said that he would like to see the first two years of a students college tuition be paid for by the government, which Democrats applauded, but the President’s words wasn’t enough to satisfy Florida Democrat Congressman Alan Grayson, who said that college tuition should be entirely paid for by the U.S. government.

Grayson said the following:

“I pay $60,000 a year for my daughter’s tuition, room and board, and textbooks. That is well beyond the middle class and people who earn $12 an hour,” adding, “You have talented young men and women who cannot be all they can be because they don’t have the help, and instead are cashiers not engineers.”- Rep. Alan Grayson (D)

Forgetting that Western European countries are strapped with paying higher personal income taxes than Americans, not to mention a VAT, Grayson said that “every Western European country pays for its students higher education. But this won’t pass and the Republicans couldn’t care less.”

Grayson’s Christmas wish to pay for everyone’s college tuition translates into a huge tax increase that will be needed to pay for this big government endeavor of his.

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Ed I

I hate it when the Democrats or any politician believe the answer to any problem is spending more of the taxpayers’ money. Government funding of k-12 has not been a success so why the heck would funding another two years be any different. The more money government spends on education the more expensive it becomes both in dollars and the lack of a useful product. The argument is that we need people with skill sets that match the jobs that exist now and in the future, yet we keep paying for people to go to school in feminine studies and my favorite pre-law and law. Maybe, just maybe I would support government funding if it went to a very specific list of skills and fields of study but not for any and every bizarre and generally useless majors. Reason so many millenniums cannot find a job is they didn’t consider what was in the real world before they spent four or more years in the land of liberal fantasy.
- Rich
  
  If we don’t invest in the education of future generations we will not remain a great nation for too much longer when other nations, who are not afraid to spend some of their taxpayers’s money on education, have a more highly educated populace than ours.
  Publicly funded education worked well for generations until we had to waste huge sums of money on forced integration and bi-lingual education.
  I agree, public funding should only be for courses that can be used for the common good. I don’t feel like paying for art appreciation or for religious classes.
kerijay

Grayson is a nut just like Debbie Wasserman.
- Rich
  
  Why’s that? Maybe the nut is you?

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