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subsidizing something simply doesn’t make it more cost-effective.

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Smaller schools are the ones least able to sustain the permanently higher costs associated with the new TOPS-generated revenue stream.

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Ironically, the earlier waves of Taylor Opportunity Program graduates are among those about to get hit with a tax increase. That’s what politicians mean by free.

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Louisiana has a program called Taylor Opportunity Program for students (or TOPS), which uses tax dollars to pay for college tuition.

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they call it free college, but it isn't because they tax other people to pay for it.

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High school students think they don't have to get higher than a C in school anymore because that's what they need to go to college so they don't try their best.

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Louisianan State University has more than 25,000 students, so small changes in per-students fees go a long way.

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more people going to school when tuition is “free” is pretty much a foregone conclusion—it strains universities’ existing resources.

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a large chunk of each school’s “tuition” becomes nothing more than revenue sent in by the state bureaucracy.

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"Without the subsidy, the paying customer receives the direct benefit for the service and bears the direct cost. If that person doesn’t think the cost is worth it, they don’t pay."

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"A person receiving “free” tuition may not see it (or even care), but subsides actually raise the total cost of an education."

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As of 2010, approximately 70% of Louisiana's high school graduates go to college within one year.

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It doesn't cover every student, it's mostly middle to upper class people.

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States use tax money to pay for the student's tuition.

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This college accepts everyone that's a resident that has a C  (2.5 GPA) average and at least a 18 on their ACT. This means that the students don't have to work that hard to get in and don't even have to pay anything.

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Louisiana’s program replaces this paying customer with groups of government officials. These officials neither receive the direct benefit nor endure the direct cost of obtaining an education.

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"The eventual implosion of the program was easy to predict back in 1997 for the same reasons that pretty much any similar subsidy is destined to fail. Subsidies don’t really lower the cost of products and services; they only lower the up-front price that some people pay."

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"...the program doesn’t really provide free education. In one way or another, someone pays for it."

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When Louisiana Offered free education guess what happened

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When Louisiana Offered free education guess what happened

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http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/norbert-michel/when-louisiana-offered-free-college-education-guess-what-happened