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IF the government is going to provide funding for colleges and universities, it should be handled the same as say Medicare treatment is. The school agrees to a mandated fee to participate. Set the cap/reimbursement at $3000 in tuition per year for a an associates degree program, $4000/year for a BA/BS and $5k per year for a masters/post grad. If the school chooses not to participate, fine. Much like doctors they can compete for customers with other funding sources.
I have little to add save for my personal experience.
When I started law school in 1980, I went to Oklahoma City School of Law (due to poor LSAT scores, and even more poor high school scores). It was $150 per hour (I took some 30 hours).
I did well at that school. Well enough, that I could easily transfer to Texas Tech in 1981, at a cost of $5.00 per semester hour (I was a Texas resident).
When I graduated in 1983, the medical school was still $5.00 per hour. I briefly thought of medical school, but realized I was not cut out for it.
That is my story. Rates per hour have gone sky-high since that time. Why? I do not pretend to know.
And yet somehow college is readily available in nearly all socialist European counties.
Must be some kinda magic!
If they can afford education, and health care for that matter, the NATO members especially can afford it because the U.S. primarily shoulders the burden of their defense and defense spending. They don't have to spend much of anything for their own defense. It's not magic; it's the American taxpayer.
Let the market and competition decide tuition and watch it plummet.
This is the easy money concept and anyone who has paid attention would know that. Easy money or easy credit has been responsible for our booms and busts and is caused by government. The busts are always worse than the booms.
Before government got involved tuition the collection of the money was the responsibility of the colleges. Why raise rates if you can't get it?
Now the colleges get the money right away. Tuition is 5k this semester, government pays. Tuition is 5.5k next semester government pays. Wash, rinse repeat.
If they can afford education, and health care for that matter, the NATO members especially can afford it because the U.S. primarily shoulders the burden of their defense and defense spending. They don't have to spend much of anything for their own defense. It's not magic; it's the American taxpayer.
And yet we keep doing it?
Other countries send their kids to college. We send ours to die in a desert hell-hole so as to keep oil prices low.
But other countries don't send all of their stupid and dumb kids to college like we do.
What's it like to hate your fellow Americans?
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I partied HARD in college with mine. (I grew up poor).
