I.m not saying there’s an equivalence between student loans and police killings

Free college increases inequality. We all think about the poor kid who uses college to reach the middle class who would benefit from free college.

The reality is such situation is rare, and people from truly poor and working class families who are college material have a lot of cheap college options already between the GI Bill, private scholarships, Pell Grants, community college + scholarship to cheap state school. But they mostly don’t go to college at all because their friends and family didn’t, and they do not enjoy school enough to want to continue it further.

The main impact of free college would be upper middle class people who graduate with 50-100k in debt and then earn top 10 or 20% incomes would be 50-100k richer when they graduate (or their parents would have another 50-100k).