Free Public College

The US not having a balanced budget is the problem. The next time the government shuts down (which is practically every year at this point), they'll start axing budgets for random crap. What exactly is going to stop them from choosing the school funding, simply because, "Well, they can use less funding," then, "They can use even less funding, they don't need that much."

The whole point of this thread is saying "what if public universities were free?". Saying they won't be free for more than a year because our politicians are dicks is hardly in line with this mostly hypothetical discussion. It kind of defeats the purpose of having this topic at all.