deenoverdami:

I was once talking to a colleague about how great it is that Obama wants to make two years of community college free for American citizens, thereby reducing the amount of debt students come out of school with, and providing more educational opportunities to the wider populace and to those who couldn’t afford any higher schooling in the current system.

She responded to me: “I don’t support it, that means our taxes will go up.”

I asked her: “Why wouldn’t you be okay with your taxes being higher if it meant that literally millions of people could pursue an education, including your own children? There are virtually no drawbacks.”

She replied by saying: “I had to work to go to school, why should they get to go for free?”

And that is a huge fundamental problem with this country:

Whether it’s better healthcare, climate change, or education,
we are so consumed with the state of ourselves, we’d abandon our own children.