[arista]

Government loans and grants give colleges the ability to raise tuition through the roof. They only way to reign in tuitions is to add strings to government assistance, for example saying that government aid can only be used at colleges that charge less than $30,000/year.

[Safetgiver]

Better yet, “If you can’t afford it, spend your money in a tech school. We have enough Womyns’s studies, etc.”

[PA Engineer]

Government loans and grants give colleges the ability to raise tuition through the roof. They only way to reign in tuitions is to add strings to government assistance, for example saying that government aid can only be used at colleges that charge less than $30,000/year.

I would add one more string. When any student accumulates any amount greater than the first year graduate salary, the university has to cosign the loans. That will put an end to government education corporatism. Put the universities and their endowments at risk and not the American people.

[CA Conservative]

They only way to reign in tuitions is to add strings to government assistance,

How about getting the government out of the process altogether??? If kids could not get student loans so easily with the government guaranteeing them, they might think about actually studying something that could help them earn a living, instead of majoring in Womyn's Studies or the History of Basket Weaving. Also, if enrollments at these colleges started falling like a rock because students could no longer afford to attend, tuition would start coming down or the colleges would start going out of business.

What is very telling is that when discussing this issue, Trump's first instinct is to call for more government involvement, not less. As many of us have been saying over and over again, Trump is not conservative. He has no problem with government power; he just thinks it has not been managed correctly. He thinks as long as he is the one with the power, he can make it run right.