So Ontario’s free tuition plan lasted less than 3 years

Interesting that it was for low income families, but was initially for families making up to $175,000 a year. That seems rather high for "low income", unless the standard of living in Ontario is insanely high.

Seems like they didn't plan accordingly with a budget set specifically for this, and with proper limits. Now they are wondering how to pay for it.

175k income is not low, even in large metro areas like NYC, DC, Seattle, etc. Lol
 
I forget the name of the school but in Indianapolis there was a nursing school that churned out local nurses. As the student base became increasingly inner city due to low cost and high demand for nurses at some point they applied for and received a grant to cover 100% of low income students. This was great news for the community and there was a steady flow of incoming nurses into the community. However what began happening was these newly minted nurses were less than stellar in their duties and problems arose in the form of lawsuits. Word spread quickly and before long no local hospitals would hire these nurses and they weren't willing to travel to other locations looking for jobs so they began gaining employment with nursing homes. It wasn't long before the nursing home were seeing an uptick in neglect and patient complaints and abuse. Around the same time the free nursing school lost accreditation and died a peaceful death. In a few short years both the hospitals and nursing homes purged themselves of those poorly trained nurses with the free education and replaced them with ones who had paid for and valued their job and education.
The end.
 
Sure, and by the same token universal health care and free college can also said to not be free once they get established. UHC and Free college would be expected as entitled benefits for tax payers / citizens of the US.

Sure but there's no services required for them. So it's not like the GI bill.
 
Sure but there's no services required for them. So it's not like the GI bill.

Just being a citizen should be enough. If you are a citizen then either you contributed to the country's coffers or your parents did.
 
Just being a citizen should be enough. If you are a citizen then either you contributed to the country's coffers or your parents did.

Nope, bottom 30 really do not contribute all that much at all. Programs like this would be paid for by the top 40 exclusively unless you add a federal sales tax
 
Working and Middle Class people do pay taxes. Ofcourse it isn't "much" compared with the upper middle-because they aren't making much to begin with.

Tax Brackets
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/taxbracket.asp

And factor In deductions, cost per program and use - the bottom 3rd pay no real federal taxes.

Heress the breakdown post deductions and as you can see, the bottom 50% pay next to nothing and the bottom 30% either pay nothing or have negative payments

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Source on only allowing immigrants from the middle east and Africa?

Looked for myself, complete crock of shit that only immigrants come from the middle east and africa in material numbers. Not even close.
 
For post WW2 vets whose contract promised the benefits mentioned in the GI Bill, it is considered a part of the compensation package for serving, just as a paycheck is. But these benefits were added on after WW2, so the benefits weren't originally considered as compensation for serving, it was only later considered as such.

Outside of a full scholarship, most people have to pay for higher education, if you are attending a 4 year university or college. But as with the case of the WW1 vets and WW2 vets , if the government was to pass a law stating that everyone is entitled to a 4 year college/university education at no cost to them, it would be a benefit afforded to future generations that previous generations did not have.
The difference being that veterans have to earn this benefit through service while everyone else in your scenario would get a "freebie" because they are a U.S. citizen.
 
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