Why is free college such a crazy idea? (Hint: IT'S NOT)

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The more money the government puts into something, the more expensive that something becomes. Take the University of Washington for example, the price for tuition (just tuition) is right around $12,000 (it's actually a little less, but this number is easier to work with). Let's say that a plan like Bernie Sanders has comes into play and he's able to generate enough revenue from increased taxes for the federal government to pay that amount for every student. It works exactly as planned (yeah right) and everything's good to go. Demand at the university is sky high and all the students are happy.

Next year, the UW administrators decide to raise tuition prices. The school is not controlled by the federal government and can raise their prices as they see fit. So they increase fees to $15,000. The federal government is able to increase taxes again and are able to fully fund tuition at the higher level and everyone is happy except for the people who's taxes went up.

The following year, the UW administrators thought things went so smoothly the previous year, they raise the prices from $15,000 to $20,000. The federal government still doesn't have control over the school so there's no way they can stop them so they're forced to raise taxes again or back out of their plan to fully pay for tuition. This cycle would continue until we're in the exact same situation we're in now where the federal government would only be able to pay a percentage of the tuition and students would have to go back to getting private/public loans to cover the difference. The loan amounts would be small at first, but as the universities continue to raise rates, and the money the federal government contributes remains the same, the loan amounts would have to increase to cover the difference. Ultimately, students would be in the exact situation they're in now with the government wasting billions of dollars for absolutely no advantage over where we're currently at.

Did you actually even read the whole thing or are you one of those types of people who lacks the ability to humble himself just because the source does not come from your bible/qu'ran/law-book ? Are you one of those people who refuses to have an audience with "unestablished social-status" people just because they have not given you proof of being a king or leader of some kingdom ? Did you seriously just call that a "random" thread even when it's specifically related regarding these discussions ? Are you one of those people that judges books by its covers before even bothering to read any of its content ?

[John 21:25] "For the teacher known as Jesus did [and taught] many things... such that I suppose that not even the entire world would be able to contain all of the books of everything that could be written."

Yeah, I thought you were, and that is why you make threads like this, because you haven't actually done your homework/research yet. Not trying to be belligerent, but at least put some effort into judging/intepreting the content rather than the cover of discussion, for you could have learned that you CAN take college-classes already, for FREE (on-line), with accredited certification/diploma being issued/delivered/mailed to you upon successful completion, unless if course you did not actually read anything within.

[1 Corinthians 1:27] "For the Sovereign-Power hath chosen the things the world considers foolish to shame those who think that they are wise; the b***h called Karma hath chosen the weak things of the world to topple those who boast of their strengths"

Perhaps you would rather listen to Ben Shapiro instead on the failure of college-education ?
That guy has literally HOURS worth of content you can hear from IN-DEPTH debates/discussions.
Here, I will get you started, this is ONE out of MANY authors/publishers on colleges, for your info...

This isn't even covering the "intentional dumbing down of Americans" Conspiracy Evidence Documentaries.

Yes it is; it's an autocratic dictatorship. What you believe is an illusion...

Doesn't the government mostly already fund college anyway with loans and grants?

One of the theories on why tuition is so expensive in the first place because colleges know they can keep increasing the tuition, and the government will keep footing the bill.

I'd like to see colleges compete based on what an average student can afford to pay.

Amazingly, the entire CUNY (City University of New York) system was free until 1976.

Yep.....That probably had something to do with it.

By the way: I don't see anything wrong, really, with providing a free college education--provided that there are controls within that educational system which will seek to alleviate goof-offs.

What I mean by goof-off is not merely somebody who is weird and has an alternative mindset. I meant the person who drinks his/her self to oblivion, and then doesn't attend class.

I am not sure whether or not it would be feasible for a country as large as the US to be able to manage free college from the federal level.
For me with this or other federal programs like welfare it isn't as much about the money as it is the moral argument of someone getting something for free and someone else having to pay for it. Plus students from wealthy families, such as the Wall Street billionaires that Bernie likes to talk about, will get to take advantage of the same program.