[throwaway342526]

It's not wrong. Making something free means paying for it in a transparent fashion.

Bernie Sanders is not talking about changing the institutional structure of college such that it somehow has no cost to provide. He is talking about the government paying that cost on behalf of students.

I agree with free education, by the way. We currently spend our budgets on much less useful things. But let's be honest about what it means and how it works.

[logician76]

Yes it is wrong, paying the cost of education at cost (for a government), or paying students to pay market prices (inflated by perception of value) is a huge difference. Which do you think Bernie Sanders was implying?

[throwaway342526]

Bernie is not suggesting nationalizing all american colleges. That would be absurd.