[polymuser]

Make college ‘required’ for everything, make loans real easy to get, indoctrinate the young skulls full of mush, take government control of the loans, make a repayment deal for votes...

[4Liberty]

Why is Education so costly? Answer: Unions. There are 6 unions on my campus! They over-pay everyone, from Deans (Teamsters) and faculty (AFT) to office workers (AFL-CIO). The DNC skims union dues off of this growing, overpriced, public-sector largess. With a third party, the Taxpayer, pays for these overpriced services, there you have Moral Hazard problem. We have a huge waste of taxpayer funded education expenditures, since the end-users (the consumers), the banks (who don't do the lending and bear the risks as they should -- its the govt), and the students themselves don't really care what their feminist-haiku-studies Major is, since taxpayers are forced to pay, and will also eventually eat the bad loans as well. The students end up living with their parents, and the productive (useful) economy we ALL depend on shrinks, due to wasted capital dollars.

[informavoracious]

Maybe I am dumb, but how would tax cuts negatively impact private colleges? Their prices have skyrocketed too, maybe more than public colleges.

[353FMG]

It cost me a total of $2400 in tuition money to get from Freshman to MSChE. in the early sixties.

Of course, for $2400 you could also buy a brand new Ford Mustang in those days.

[Thorliveshere]

Geez, the gov’ wants to price-control every gawbdamned thing, minimum wage, oil, how much CEO’s make, how much sports figures make, and on and on, and yet they can’t put a big damper on Universities?

[brooklyn dave]

Personally, today, I don’t think a bachelor’s in any field —maybe except sciences, accounting, or something concrete is worth the thousands of dollars that students/student’s parents paid for it. Academia is one of the biggest mafias going. I live near NYU in Manhattan and these people never stop building—I can imagine what they’re charging their students. College has become more of a rite of passage than what one actually learns. How many people jokingly say that their major was partying? It’s become if one doesn’t have a degree one is relegated to working in McDonald’s....education must be centered around the real working world.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Cheap, government backed debt fueled inflation.

See the housing market circa 2008 to see how this ends.

[Loud Mime]

fyi ping - - some great feedback here.