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Joyce Maxwell's avatar

What can we do to prevent the production of warehouses to hold 5,000 to 10,000 detainees awaiting deportation or legal hearings? I am old enough to remember the Holocaust and I don't want it to be repeated here in America.

Jeremy Riedl's avatar

Long form question, sorry.

If we're not going to support the education of students with "socialism" by subsidizing their tuition, can we at least make it fairer for students who need to take out loans by linking tuition rates and therefore debt, to the estimated earnings of graduates based on their degree? We can cap it at a certain percentage of projected earnings and universities can use high paying degrees to subsidize low paying ones. The data exists to do it and it is based on supply and demand.

I've worked in higher education for almost thirty years and can't understand how we can be living in a society that worships "free markets" and capitalism and still be charging people the same price for different degrees with very different market values.

Full disclosure, I'm not a libertarian; very much the opposite and believe we should subsidize education because it benefits everyone. I work in higher education opportunity programs and can see that the money spent to put one poor student through college is fully repaid ten times over during the course of their life in the form of taxes on wages, increased productivity, less social assistance use, etc.

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