Sen. John A. DeFrancisco, R-Syracuse, is the deputy majority leader of the New York State Senate. He represents the 50th Senate District.
By Sen. John A. DeFrancisco
This letter is in response to the Jan. 29, 2017, letter to the editor
from Jim Malatras, Director of State Operations for Gov. Andrew Cuomo ("Cuomo aide: Critics of free college tuition plan are wrong"),
wherein he claims he "wants to clear up the white noise and false
information" aimed at the governor's free college tuition plan. For me,
he didn't.
First of all nothing is "free," especially something of the
magnitude of a college education. Someone has to pay for it, and in this
case, it is obviously the taxpayer who will have to do so. The taxpayer
who, in many cases, has already helped pay for the college education of
either a child or grandchild, and the taxpayer who is barely getting
by, living in a state that leads virtually all other states in its
appetite to tax its residents.
The governor claims that this "free" tuition will only cost
approximately $160 million. Malatras claims that 900,000 families will
be eligible. What? If only one child in one-half the eligible families
were to take advantage of the program, each student would receive only
some $350. Tuition alone for a four-year SUNY or CUNY college is at
least $6,300 per year.
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Source: Syracuse.com (via The Empire Report)
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