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JustAnOgre's avatar

Americans are weird about “socialism”. The way we do it is the government owning and running some rather low-cost universities. Bernie Sanders wants the taxpayer to pay for very expensive, private, for-profit universities. Of course that is not popular, that is like corporate welfare and special interest group lobbying. This should be about the government doing things directly to the people, without any third party getting rich on it.

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David Gaynon's avatar

I have very mixed feelings on this. But one of my concerns is that this will just allow higher ed to continue to raise their prices way beyond almost everything else. Why have their costs gone up so much? When you try and dig into the numbers one can easily see tuition and government support but its more difficult to find bottom line costs and the drivers of these.

I think we have the wrong policy on college loans. Payments should be limited to a per cent of income or alternatively to family net worth and the colleges should be on the hook to make up the difference. This I believe would drive accountability in the right direction.

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