Being a kid teaches you how to not be bullied by the strong.  Being a parent teaches you how to not be bullied by the weak.

If government will pay the bill, or is expected to, students will worry less about accumulating debt than otherwise. Which incentivizes universities to care less about controlling costs. Democrats are tossing old tires onto the fire in an alleged attempt to smother it.

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward -- reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read." -Michael Crichton