It's a shameless attempt to get Sander's supporters. The "problem" of paying for education would solve itself if the gov't got out of the way.

The "problem" is it's hard for the average middle-class person to stop working for four years and focus on undergrad. I did it, and in retrospect except for the intense last year of it, it was a colossal waste of my parents' money. A few years later I did my master's part time, paid for by a company and by teaching analog electronics. That was much more beneficial because I was getting knowledge for coursework and related paid work at the same time, and I was not blowing through money by living a reasonable lifestyle while not working.

If gov't must "do something" I say improve the public high schools, which are already gov't-run, so that they provide marketable skills.

To me paying for people's schooling is just one more good cause the gov't should not be taking up.

Better solution:
Stop inflating the currency by repealing the federal Reserve Act, and return the means to pay for education to people by repealing the 16th amendment and closing the IRS. No government funding for college education loans will lower the tuition cost dramatically and stop enslaving the young to banksters. Of course that would also increase competition in the slightly free market, and that is the opposite of the goals of the corruptocracy.

The entire motivation for this is that a majority of the degrees available do not increase your earning potential significantly enough to be a real ROI on the college investment.
People are going to school, because to be in that crowd, they need a college degree, otherwise, they might really have to work for a living. The fact is, everyone has to work for a living, and the work some can do it more marketable than the work others can do. So sorry, why don't you go complain about professional athletes salaries progressive puke.

To make it easier for the majority, lazy, unmeasured(able?) fine and liberal arts majors, the progressives want to pay for college, and produce even more pretend-educated, non-contributing, over-earning people in our welfare state, that will then complain about income-inequality without looking at those in the rest of the world.

This is precisely what Margret Thatcher meant when she said, the problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money.

If The Donald had a hint of a strategy, he would take the other side of this argument, and say, "Indeed, college is too expensive, and we have inadequate students in the curricula that contributes and earns. The problem is the cost of education, not the availability of money for it. We do not need to pour gasoline on this fire. I propose:
1. revising the college accreditation standards to simplify the requirements and improve competition. Why can't someone learn nursing in a 200 person school?
2. Linking federal funding to metrics on graduate earnings and draw from the job market. If STEM pays, STEM gets funded.
3. Provide funding to trade schools equivalently. We need all kinds of worker, and the country values diversity. Not everyone will be happy as a doctor, lawyer or engineer, but everyone needs a home, transportation and electricity.
Yes, school is affordable. How can it possible cost $40,000 for 510 hrs of teaching a year? With just 10 students per class, this is $780/hr. Absolutely ridiculous cost. Just ridiculous. Screaming waste, fraud and inefficiency. Let me show you how some real business competition drives efficiency!"

Why don't we simply boycott Killary and Trumph and all political crap called plans? Time to shrug.

What good is a free college degree, when you still have mostly what you should have been taught in high school, with a whole lot of DIVERSITY thrown in
The government has already dropped us to 25rh in the world in test scores, they need to get out of schooling. Hillary is also for the UN tax. She won't be happy until until the middle class has nothing left, and needs to join those depending on government for help. She does not value actually educating the next generation, they are to be dumbed down, equalized to undeveloped nation status, or exterminated with vaccines to reduce population.

Excuse me, but I will not permit further mooching at the expense of me, my job, my university, and other producers!

Yes, it's a Sanders rip-off. $350 billion? Hah! I'd be willing to bet that it will achieve Bernie's $700 billion before the program gets too much older.

Hildebeast is a political windsock. She just offers our money to get HER votes. She is a terrible administrator and should be fired from government service, and NEVER allowed to be president.

H.L. Mencken once called American elections "advance auctions of stolen goods." He meant that our politicians attempt to outbid each other by promising goodies to the electorate to be funded by future theft from taxpayers. Hillary's plan is a great example of this tactic. How stupid and venal must people be to fall for this? That's a rhetorical question.

The federal government has ruined higher education several different ways. First they meddle in it with no constitutional authority. Then they force adoption of race and gender quotas and destroy most sports via Title IX. Then they drive the cost through the roof by enacting student loan and grant programs. Then they demand outrageous speech policies that ban debate on most controversial topics. And now they demand an outrageously low standard of proof to railroad guys out on "sexual misconduct" charges.

I wouldn't go to college today anywhere in the US. And I'd think twice about hiring anybody who did.

I think the subject should be blown off.
She is not the president and even if she were this give-a-way program would not fly.