Universal free college seems like a gross, regressive policy to me. Expand Pell to cover the cost of in-state flagship school. Don’t pay for me and my neighbors in Oak Park; we’re systemically advantaged enough already, and already unfairly outcompete other students.
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Replying to @tqbf
Universality in education led to the enlightenment. The cost of including the advantaged minority is not significant within the gross productivity outcome. Additionally, the cost of means testing to filter out those wealthy enough to pay is also a false economy.
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Replying to @GrahamAnd3rson
We already do this means testing for college assistance. All I’m proposing is to increase its payout.
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Replying to @tqbf
And it helps feeds the predatory student loan system with the futures of the wide swath of people who are not poor enough for assistance and not rich enough to pay an extra $2-5000/month for school.
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Replying to @nycplayer
Paying full freight for flagship state schools rather than a small fraction of it FEEDS the student loan system?
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Replying to @tqbf
It depends on where you set the bar. Free college for everyone making under $1,000,000/year? That might be an OK compromise. But if you set it around $100K, as most current programs do, millions will still have to take out loans, for (now increased) tuitions.
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Replying to @nycplayer @tqbf
How many 18 year olds make a million dollars a year?
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How many 18 year olds get students loans based on their personal income?
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Basically none where I come from, because University is free! Boggles me that an 18 year old would be burdened with debt or shackled to their parents through jno choice to their own.
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Boggles me too, and I'm living it.
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