This paper examines the affordable college expense for a lifetime of benefits from hard work and determination.  Employers deserve a workforce that can find a way to contribute to the growth of their company.  Your child can develop those skills and demonstrate the character that employers want; resourceful, hard working, long term thinking, and appreciation of value.

Parents have had a child's lifetime of tax breaks and college is not an investment for society. College is an investment that the child must make to receive the intangible priceless pride that lives with them the rest of their lives.

Society will pay children an adult wage for their adult skills. There is no reason to put the burden on taxpayers without children, some of which can't medically have children due to no fault of their own.  Why add insult to injury by penalizing the child-less because bad parents didn't teach their children to work for their advanced education.

C-SPAN REPORTED THAT THE AVERAGE GRADUATING SENIOR IS ABOUT 22K$ IN DEBT.  Is that an issue? The price of a new car loan is too much to pay for a lifetime benefit of a college education?  No. A small personal debt is not too much.  That is Affordable. That is Worth it. That is not a crises that means we need to tax others for others' kids.