The wealthy elite will fight tooth and nail against free college for two reasons:
1. it will be harder to fill the ranks of the military with poor people if college is free.
2. starting off workers with enormous debt is the greatest innovation that capitalism ever came up with.

— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) December 7, 2019

This is the same reason Medicare For All is resisted so aggressively. Break the linkage of health care to employers and it’s much easier for people to change jobs, or just to quit.

This is at least 80% of the reason for all the propaganda against M4A as it would actually be far cheaper than what we do now.