Senator Edwards proposed last Thursday that the federal government assure every qualified haskrool graduate a free freshman year in college. Said Edwards (D-Litigation), “Providing a free year of college tuition will eliminate the sticker shock that scares off so many kids.” It doesn’t scare any kids at all. It scares their parents.
See, Edwards is their fresh new face, and his new big idea is just an old-fashioned handout. At some point, every liberal idea will collapse of its own weight. It’s what happened in the Soviet Union, and it’s what happens to most socialist societies around the world.