President Trump is winning big victories.
His big victory of the day is slashing and burning his way through the Department of Education, which he has proposed to eliminate completely.
People don’t seem to understand what it is that the Department of Education actually does. They seem to believe that all public schools all over the country are paid for by the federal government. That is not true. The vast majority of public school spending is state and local spending, as it should be, because there is no legitimate reason why a taxpayer in Florida should subsidize the public school education of a student in California.
The truth is that the vast majority of money spent via the Department of Education is federal student aid on college loans. In other words, the cost of college has skyrocketed due to the gigantic subsidies that are paid for by your taxpayer dollars to colleges that are…
