Leftists try to lure in people with promises of making goods and services free. Their pitch is often irresistible to people who can’t or don’t consider long-run consequences.

Naturally, some lefties (most notably right now, Bernie Sanders) say that the want to make college free. In this piece I recently wrote for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, I argue that past efforts at lowering the cost of college have made it more expensive — and at the same time, of less value. Trying to make it “free” by further shifting costs from students who desire education to the taxpayers will make matters worse.

Sound education would make people less susceptible to the left’s sucker bait of giving them power in exchange for free stuff. That, of course, is one reason why they want to substitute their false education for the real thing.