Gary Johnson’s bold plan to slash education expenses

Gary Johnson’s college affordability plan and a desire for more local control could help him with young voters worried about college costs.

The Libertarian presidential nominee sat down with International Business Times to discuss abolishing the Department of Education and why college is so expensive.

In advocating his plan, Johnson explained how the process works:

New York City sends Washington, D.C. 13 cents. OK? [It] goes to Washington, D.C. and it comes back to New York state as 11 cents. Gee, how does that transaction work? Something happened. Bureaucracy happened. All right. And then, they send 11 cents back. So 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends comes from the federal government, but it comes with 15 cents’ worth of the strings attached, meaning they say, “To get the 11 cents, we want you to do A, B, C and D.” Well, to do A, B, C and D, that’s 4 cents that the state could have spent in ways that it saw fit. But now it’s got to comply with the federal government to receive it.

The cost of bureaucracy adds up.