Perhaps, but compared to the average Dayton idea--i.e. look at the title of this thread--it's positively brilliant.
At least make it go towards college or trade school, with few exceptions. A scholarship to their future or something..
Low-cost or tuition-free education for anyone who qualifies. The way they do it in most of Europe, South America - hell, even Sri Lanka. IOW, pretty much anywhere in the industrialized world that isn't the U.S.
I wonder how he plans to fund the arrears payments for the rest of us, who already passed 18. The present value for me and other 44 year olds would be about $185,000.
Who decide if this goes through, voters? Because the ones old enough to vote are already past their eighteenth birthday. These rest of the voters will more than likely not vote yes on something that is basically a fuck you to them.
What about the ones over19? For a yes vote you'd need an age where the no votes would lose out to the yes notes. What age would that be?