Millennial goes on rant saying Taxpayers should pay for all College students' tuition. You agree?

[Antiquity]

She went on Fox news saying that she wants one percenters to pay for tuition, debt to be cancelled, and for minimum wage to be raised to $15. She wants the one percenters to pay a tax rate over 60% so that they can subsidize all of this

Fox News commentator said we don't have enough money to make this possible and that if we raise the tax rates for the wealthy then the wealthy will leave America and we will run out of money like Greece

What's your take? Do you think American highearning taxpayers should be taxed at higher rates to subsidize college tuition, or should students continue taking out loans to pay for these inordinate college costs?

 

[JahFocus CS]

Public higher education can be made free. I support raising taxes on the wealthy; they become wealthy through the capitalist production process from the labor of the working class.

That being said, she did a very poor job of representing her position. You need to brush up on your facts and presentation before going on TV to make an argument.

 

[Obreh Winfrey]

Public higher education can be made free. I support raising taxes on the wealthy; they become wealthy through the capitalist production process from the labor of the working class.

That being said, she did a very poor job of representing her position. You need to brush up on your facts and presentation before going on TV to make an argument.

I agree and disagree; in a homogeneous, smaller country it can be done. In the U.S., with our federal system and 50 separate state governments, I don't think it can be done. I feel that the country is just too big for that legislation to happen. I got in a dispute with a girl from Germany about this a few months back where they do have free college. Of course people want this to happen, but nobody wants to pay for it.

 

[Thijj]

The argument that germany like free-tuition can't scale economically isn't true, the argument that Indivudual states would either flat out not adopt or b*stardize the rollout of free tuition does hold.

Of course Fox News puts a "bimbo handout-wanting millennial" out there who can't refute their curveball shyt.

I regret even giving that video a click

 

[Yapdatfool]

The argument that germany like free-tuition can't scale economically isn't true, the argument that Indivudual states would either flat out not adopt or b*stardize the rollout of free tuition does hold.

Of course Fox News puts a "bimbo handout-wanting millennial" out there who can't refute their curveball shyt.

I regret even giving that video a click

Thanks breh. Not gonna even bother watching.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

The fact remains is until the labor market and the false "skills gap" myth is fully debunked and employers stop looking for "purple unicorns" the college issue really is an after thought.

The whole reason college isn't worth it right now is because it doesn't guarantee employment to pay back what you owe. Simple as that.

Fix the labor market first then the college problem will fix itself naturally by supply and demand laws.

 

[Dorian Breh]

I think they should make 2 yr degrees free and set it up so it's easy to transfer credits to 4 yr programs.

And you can get certified to teach the 2 yr classes doing two yrs of night school once you already have your two yr degree. So you create employment through this strategy as well.

Two yrs is enough time to learn whatever key skills you need for most jobs - a lot of college credits are for electives or liberal arts requirements which I don't think the gov't needs to subsidize.

You do not need a four yr sociology/lib arts degree to do most job, you just need the degree to get the job. This would move away from that.

 

[Hard Times Nakamura]

I think they should make 2 yr degrees free and set it up so it's easy to transfer credits to 4 yr programs.

And you can get certified to teach the 2 yr classes doing two yrs of night school once you already have your two yr degree. So you create employment through this strategy as well.

Two yrs is enough time to learn whatever key skills you need for most jobs - a lot of college credits are for electives or liberal arts requirements which I don't think the gov't needs to subsidize.

You do not need a four yr sociology/lib arts degree to do most job, you just need the degree to get the job. This would move away from that.

Sound logic but once you remove the padding and cut the wheat from the chaff then you are gonna have a hard time attracting qualified professors once the average salary drops as a result.

Then what will happen is with the lower salaries you'll get more cantankerous potentially racist professors that have ulterior motives and agendas creating even more problems than we have today.

I graduated with a really low GPA and most of it is due just to blackness. The only other Black males from my university that graduated with a high GPA were gay.

That is a huge problem if you're trying to get into a field like accounting or finance which weighs GPAs more heavily. So then students will only attend HBCUs or colleges in highly diverse areas which will then cause a big shift in regional demographics, politics, etc.

 

[street heat]

i just want the government to do something about these damn loans and high ass interest rates

someone has got to stop these crooks from taking advantage of all these poor kids only wanting to better themselves

 

[MillionMills]

taxing the rich isnt the answer, wish millennials would should the hell up about it

 

[hatealot]

No, there is always a choice and many of these choices are available to lower your tuition such as C.C. or just cheaper universities. I seen the curriculum for many schools from "top" schools and regular average universities and the tests are basically the same. Now, I do agree college has raised in price unfairly, for example my mother got her BA at a private school that cost 6K a year, now its 35K a year while our purchasing power has decrease since her time in college versus now. Now if we treat college almost like a universal healthcare program where it is heavily subsidized by ALL of america taxpayers like European universities then I'm all for it but specifically just looking at 1% just shows me she has a axe to grind and btw just from her face I just can tell she think people owe her for her own decisions she made. I'm also against free college nation wide that Bernie was pushing as well.

 

[HearNoEvil]

Will never happen, nor should it.

Certificate inflation would shoot through the roof as employers set up even higher barriers of entry to the job market.

Bleeding heart liberals would still be unemployable because they refuse to obtain viable skills. The people who chose unsexy majors don't complain half as much about student loan debt as their counterparts.

If we're going after the pocket books of the rich lets use the spoils to further assist the ultra poor/weak/old, not to clean up after the "oh so unfortunate" offspring of the middle class.

 

[Rawtid]

No that should never happen. In my opinion, every student should graduate high school with not only a diploma but an associates as well. Get all that Gen Ed stuff out the way. That way they spend 2 years in a University doing actual coursework that aligns with their major. It's a lot cheaper and families SHOULD be able to save, obtain scholarships or cash flow that part.

 

[Black Panther]

I'm not necessarily for making all college free (I don't think students going to Yale should be on the federal dime), but I am definitely for making community college free. I think America has the funds to do that, and it may have a net positive effect of reducing tuition costs across the board.

There could also be an argument for making state owned colleges free as well.

 

[Antiquity]

taxing the rich isnt the answer, wish millennials would should the hell up about it

If the wealthy one percenters are taxed at a 60 or 70% rate they will likely back their bags and leave for another country.