when you borrow money, your net worth goes down
isn’t this obvious?
what’s the big deal?
you decide you want to get an education, it can enhance your life in so many ways....some economic ways (higher earnings capacity if you take majors that give you employable skills, not “community organizing” or “commielesbo studies”)
and an education can enhance your life in non-ecnoomic ways, too.... you may understand more of what’s going on, you might discover tremendously valuable cultural, literary, art, music enjoyments in your future life, and so forth.
it is wonderful that each individual can make this kind of choice for themselves in America.
there’s certainly nothing to complain about here!
Let's start with in-state tuition rates for illegal aliens.
How do you think that impacts poor and middle class “b+” students who do not qualify for government grants, since they can only afford to attend community college classes on a “pay as you go” situation?
Supply and demand is in play, right?
Demand is artificially increased, and the “supply side” charges higher prices for all.
Higher education is a business, like any other.
It just happens to be partially taxpayer subsidized, and also the willing participant to horrendous political corruption.
One would think with all the technology advances,many basic, on-line college level education courses would be exceedingly cheap and all but freely available to everyone!
Not so.
Students pay the “professional educational guild” much as blue collar workers are forced to pay Union dues, in order to demonstrate their willingness to play by archaic rules that might have mattered 100 years ago, but do not matter now.
Why?
So the current higher education employees can continue to be inefficient and ever more costly?
I am willing for a portion of my taxes to help pay “living wages” for serious scholars to concentrate on an almost unlimited number of fields of intensive study.
It is stupid to have new students pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to become certified in old knowledge.