One of the worst things the government has done has been to use taxpayer money to subsidize the raising of the cost of college. I say it that way because it is not a result that we are more educated, because so much of college now is fluff or downright harmful to the human person, but that the only thing it accomplished is the increase in cost and decrease in quality to the point that I might rather someone without a degree to work for me.
Let's ban government funding of non-essential projects, especially healthcare and college. It only makes it worse for everybody.