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I agree that community college and state universities should be relatively affordable. Over the decades, states have cut funding to them to subsidize in-state students, and as a result they've raised in state tuition and tried to make more % of their student bodies be out of state students.
Definitely should raise taxes on higher incomes and (especially) capital gains and use that money to make in state options cheaper.
That's always been handled individually by each state rather than as a federal issue, though. So maybe that needs to change.

It should never be free, though. Then a) a lot of people don't about getting anything out of it b/c "whatever, it's free" and b) NOT EVERYONE NEEDS TO OR EVEN SHOULD GO TO COLLEGE. A college degree (any degree) is already dangerously close to being the new high school diploma, some minimum educational accolade to have that is used as a quick weed-out. Some jobs just don't need it. Even the trades, you could go to a trade school and learn far more relevant info for your job than a full four year degree program.