PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Bob Noel on June 20, 2019, 07:37:50 AM
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Single-payer and "free" health-care is all the rage among the far-left.
I can't help but wonder how the far-left would feel about single-payer education. No more elite schools, one set of rules for everyone, one set of standards for everyone.
Would paying a "professor" $300,000 to teach one course fit in the whole single-payer education system?
Sauce for the goose....
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Liz Warren (Liawatha) was making something like that at Harvard. The Dems are promoting "affordable and debt free" college, but they aren't saying how that would work.
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Liz Warren (Liawatha) was making something like that at Harvard. The Dems are promoting "affordable and debt free" college, but they aren't saying how that would work.
Once upon a time we did have affordable and debt free college. Back in the '70s I went to a state school for a CS degree. Books were something like $25 each. Tuition and fees were maybe $200. State schools were heavily taxpayer funded. As time went on, the states pulled their funding and shifted to a student loan system. Much more profitable for the states, and no incentive to keep costs down. Today we have $400 books and thousands in tuition and fees.
A long time ago the state saw that an educated workforce is a good thing for everyone. That should be the goal... not affordable college, but a good education. State-subsidized education is good. The problem is that it's VERY painful (expensive) to go back to the way it was. Too many other things to spend our money on.