Originally Posted by Old Dad
As clarification, I separate government (taxpayer) services as opposed to personal responsibility based on whether it's a personal service / benefit or a commonly used service.

The military commonly serves all citizens, all citizens with valid license can freely use roads. It has been determined that a K-12 education is publically available to all citizens and part of which is even required by law, as opposed to medical attention which is a personal good and service (and should remain unsubsidized IMO) a college education (which many, if not a majority of citizens, are not even capable of completing)

We've become a country big on rights and expectations from others and low on personal responsibility and expectations of ourselves, which breeds the next generation of those low on personal responsibility and expectations of self......but that's okay, we can just point the finger at the taxpayer and cry "unfair" and expect them to make up for it.

By this logic, higher education is a commonly-used service, and therefore should be fully funded by the federal government. Regardless of whether you have a degree or not, you benefit from the higher education of others every time you conduct any transaction for goods and services, either in the private sector or the public. People with higher educations designed that product or service, and ensured its delivery.

Likewise medical services, because we all receive several benefits from a healthier population. For starters, there's an economic output increase. We all benefit from herd immunity when everyone is innoculated. Etc.