That might be fine for someone in the wrong college degree, but I - as a tax payer - need every sixth grader to learn essential the same things. I need kids to grow up able to provide life support for themselves so I can retire as by body fails from old age. I'm investing in the future of many kids I otherwise don't know or care about because making their life better makes mine better.

Even in the case of a college degree some are better than others

They were already at a University. None of the students were required to be there. They all had the ability to just leave.

There has been a shift towards too many jobs requiring a tertiary education.

But good luck reversing that trend.