Your coach throws a real objection, you answer out loud, and it scores the actual words you said.
The challenge
“Free college just shifts the cost to people who never went — that's regressive.”
You said
“Most public goods work that way. I don't use every road either.”
What worked
You reframed it as a public good instead of accepting the transfer framing.
Do this better
You never answered “regressive”. Name who actually pays — that's the whole objection.
A model answer
“Regressive means the poor pay more as a share. Funded from income tax it's the opposite — so which funding model are you objecting to?”