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[MTK]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

Shouldn’t we be tackling the cost of going to college? This doesn’t fix a fucking thing. Middle and working class paying off debt for the people who make the most, disgraceful.

“Paying fair share”…maybe the college and universities sitting on large endowment should be taxed and the money returned to fund increasing tuition cost? That’s fair right? Fair share and all

Tuition costs have definitely become outrageous. Looking back now I have serious second thoughts on whether going to graduate school was worth it. But there's such an emphasis on education in this country vs learning a trade. Wish more options were presented back in high school. If your grades were good you were pushed towards college and trade school wasn't even mentioned as a viable alternative.

[sdskinsfan2001]

Originally Posted by MTK

Tuition costs have definitely become outrageous. Looking back now I have serious second thoughts on whether going to graduate school was worth it. But there's such an emphasis on education in this country vs learning a trade. Wish more options were presented back in high school. If your grades were good you were pushed towards college and trade school wasn't even mentioned as a viable alternative.

I knew there was something we could agree on. I agree with every word of this post.

[nonniey]

Originally Posted by MTK

Tuition costs have definitely become outrageous. Looking back now I have serious second thoughts on whether going to graduate school was worth it. But there's such an emphasis on education in this country vs learning a trade. Wish more options were presented back in high school. If your grades were good you were pushed towards college and trade school wasn't even mentioned as a viable alternative.

You do know that forgiving debt drives up the costs even more. Will look up the study but the main reason for the massive drive up in graduate and post graduate costs over the last 30 years was the easy access/flooding of government money (thru loans and grants).

[SunnySide]

College costs are just insane.

Wish State schools took more in state students vs prioritizing out of state tuition. You live in Maryland but UMD defers you bc they prioritize out of state tuitions from NJ/NY. Flip side, Nj/NY kid gets deferred by Rutgers bc they prioritize out of state tuitions from MD.

So NJ/NY kid pays 50k a year to go to MD, MD kid pays 50k a year to go to Rutgers.

Colleges get more money. Student lenders get more money.

Parents and kids get straddled with decades of debt.

I know we all cant be born into the billionaire Swanson food family but at least we should take their advice on "boot straps" and "hard work" from them.

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College costs and health care .... we need some real solutions. College cant just be for the elite and international.

Our kids get told to go to community college for 2 years .. so rich out of state and international kids can enjoy the "american college experience".

[SunnySide]

One easy practical step

Increase annual amount the 529 funds can be used. Currently in Maryland its 10k per year. 10k isnt a door opener when our kids have to go to Rutgers for 50k a year bc out in state school de prioritizes us.

Just increase it to 20k a year. Then have riders that increase it by 1k every year.

[Chico23231]

Time to tax the endowments

It’s fair share time!

[MTK]

Time to tax the churches

[Chief X_Phackter]

Originally Posted by MTK

Time to tax the churches

[MTK]

If we're talking about fair share like Chico mentioned, tax the churches too then.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by Chief X_Phackter

My church fund takes in money to provide a nightly mens shower and laundry to the local homeless, provides transportation to local elderly pop for doctors/dentist apt, subsidizes children services, provides counseling services to adults going thru divorce or death of spouse, etc I don’t need to mention the missions they are involved in here or abroad

Meanwhile, Ivy League shithole endowments are taken and invested into securities on Wall Street.

Democrats are the elitest these days

[MTK]

If organized religion wants to keep flexing their influence into politics, let them pay taxes. The Catholic Church is one of the wealthiest organizations in the world and they don't exactly have a very transparent financial track record. And guess what, the Vatican has investments in some of the biggest companies in the world. Let's not pretend their hands are clean.

[Chico23231]

How is this gonna cost the American tax payers?

[mooby]

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/statu...lYIzPbexu8pxaQ

I'm enjoying the White House pointing out how much money in PPP loans conservative politicians had forgiven while those politicians bitch about student loans.

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by mooby

https://twitter.com/whitehouse/statu...lYIzPbexu8pxaQ

I'm enjoying the White House pointing out how much money in PPP loans conservative politicians had forgiven while those politicians bitch about student loans.

So the government forced businesses to close…and bipartisan legislation had to be passed by congress for economic relief…and they think this is the same? Big brains at work

What Biden did isn’t even legal, even Pelosi said so.

Like i said, this does nothing but help the elite and passes the cost to the working class. They refuse to do the hard work to bring down the cost of higher education, and give more hand outs for votes.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Chico23231

So the government forced businesses to close…and bipartisan legislation had to be passed by congress for economic relief…and they think this is the same? Big brains at work

What Biden did isn’t even legal, even Pelosi said so.

Like i said, this does nothing but help the elite and passes the cost to the working class. They refuse to do the hard work to bring down the cost of higher education, and give more hand outs for votes.

cjico is crying a fucking river, it must be good for America!