https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z en-us 2017-04-19 16:21:02 UTC 2026-02-10 03:18:20 UTC hello@padlet.com hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167068104 http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/norbert-michel/when-louisiana-offered-free-college-education-guess-what-happened]]> 2017-04-19 16:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167068104 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167068223 "...the program doesn’t really provide free education. In one way or another, someone pays for it."

]]> 2017-04-19 16:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167068223 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167068417 "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."]]> 2017-04-19 16:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167068417 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167069086 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.]]> 2017-04-19 16:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167069086 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167069424 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.]]> 2017-04-19 16:37:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167069424 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167069962 States use tax money to pay for the student's tuition. ]]> 2017-04-19 16:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167069962 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167073657 It doesn't cover every student, it's mostly middle to upper class people.]]> 2017-04-19 16:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167073657 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167074280 As of 2010, approximately 70% of Louisiana's high school graduates go to college within one year.]]> 2017-04-19 16:53:39 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167074280 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167313809 "A person receiving “free” tuition may not see it (or even care), but subsides actually raise the total cost of an education."]]> 2017-04-20 16:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167313809 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314327 "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."]]> 2017-04-20 16:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314327 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314504 a large chunk of each school’s “tuition” becomes nothing more than revenue sent in by the state bureaucracy.]]> 2017-04-20 16:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314504 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314666 more people going to school when tuition is “free” is pretty much a foregone conclusion—it strains universities’ existing resources.]]> 2017-04-20 16:21:46 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314666 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314980 Louisianan State University has more than 25,000 students, so small changes in per-students fees go a long way.]]> 2017-04-20 16:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167314980 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167315933 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.]]> 2017-04-20 16:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167315933 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167317302 they call it free college, but it isn't because they tax other people to pay for it.]]> 2017-04-20 16:29:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167317302 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167317933 Louisiana has a program called Taylor Opportunity Program for students (or TOPS), which uses tax dollars to pay for college tuition.]]> 2017-04-20 16:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167317933 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167319529 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.]]> 2017-04-20 16:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167319529 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167320942 Smaller schools are the ones least able to sustain the permanently higher costs associated with the new TOPS-generated revenue stream.]]> 2017-04-20 16:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167320942 hmoberaitis20 https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167321625 subsidizing something simply doesn’t make it more cost-effective.]]> 2017-04-20 16:42:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hmoberaitis20/dhtud3fevp8z/wish/167321625