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    1. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 4 Dec 2018
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      3rd level education is largely free or heavily subsidized in Ireland. I don't have any debt from going to two Universities there. That's policy! Existing debt could also be forgiven, or at least swapped for lower interest rates. That's also policy!

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    2. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 4 Dec 2018
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      Make them dischargeable and that may change quickly. Student loans are very rare in Ireland, I only know one person who even had one. Most people work part-time or summer jobs and that keeps them going. US is super-strange.

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    3. Graydon Hoare‏ @graydon_pub 4 Dec 2018
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      I'm well aware that the entire topic of how-to-do-socialism-in-the-US is a .. larger topic than a tweetstorm. I'm just saying there _is_ a policy locus. The destination on the map exists. How to get there from where the US currently _is_ is completely beyond my ken.

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    4. Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 4 Dec 2018
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      None of this is socialism, or would pass as such where I come from. The real challenge is how-to-do-democracy-in-the-US. The US could do all of this and still be relatively center-right.

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    5. Graydon Hoare‏ @graydon_pub 4 Dec 2018
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      I think it's reasonable to refer to large-scale state-run economic averaging operations (over time, space, people, the economy-as-a-whole) as "socialist". No need to dress it up as anything else.

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      Colm MacCárthaigh‏ @colmmacc 4 Dec 2018
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      Subsidizing education isn't Robin Hood for tuition. It's sound conservative economic policy that makes labour markets more efficient and leads to greater economic growth.

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        2. Federico Vaggi‏ @F_Vaggi 4 Dec 2018
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          I mostly agree: I worry that if you make the link between economic benefits and education the explicit reason to finance university tuition, that makes it easier down the line to cut funding for degrees that aren't requested by the market

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        3. Graydon Hoare‏ @graydon_pub 4 Dec 2018
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          Agreed. Also I think it's notable that the only thing "conservative" about this line of reasoning is the inclusion of market machinery? Like: socialists think (with good reason) that socialist policies _are_ good for economic growth. They just do a little whole-system accounting.

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