California already had free education. See the "California Master Plan for Higher Education." We had to stop because of prop 13.
"The State’s higher education and prison systems are a study in opposites. The prison system saw its state funding in dollars leap 436% between 1980 and 2011. Back then, spending on prisons was a mere 3% of California’s budget; it’s now 10%."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/california-publ...
https://time.com/4276222/free-college/
https://senate.ucsf.edu/sites/default/files/2017-02/Reclaimi...