Children are our future? Michigan Dems act like they really believe that (Free college tuition)
Michigan Senate Democrats are swinging for the fences. The Dems want to offer tuition-free higher education to qualified young people who graduate from the states K-12 system and they want to pay for that by repealing corporate tax breaks.
At first blush, that might sound like a hippy-dippy fantasy dreamed up in the tents of the Occupy Detroit movement. It also could be the best thing that ever happened to free enterprise and entrepreneurship in this state since Henry Ford learned to use a wrench.
Under the proposal, called Michigan 2020, Michigan high school graduates would be eligible to receive a grant for tuition and other costs at one of Michigans public community colleges or universities. The price tag for the plan, which is based loosely on the Kalamazoo Promise program, is estimated to be about $1.8 billion per year. That money, the backers say, could come from closing the loopholes that allow companies to avoid paying taxes.
In an announcing of the plan, Senate Democratic Leader Gretchen Whitmer said in a statement, Its time for us to be bold and theres no better place for us to start than by giving each and every child in Michigan the chance to compete in the 21st Century job market.
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