The cost of the program? Around $450 billion to 520 billion over 10 years.

Bloomberg reports.

Clinton’s College Plan Flunks the Economics Test

If it’s the summer of an election year, it must be time for campaign promises. Republicans will promise absurd tax cuts. Democrats will promise to, as PJ O’Rourke once wrote, “make you richer, smarter, taller and get the chickweed out of your lawn,” with expensive programs funded entirely by taxing a small number of distant theoretical rich people.

And right on schedule, Hillary Clinton has come forward with a plan to make college cheaper — for some folks, anyway. It will become much more expensive for the taxpayers who have to foot the bill, but they’re richer than you and you’ve never met them anyway, so who cares?