Should College in the United States be free, like Public Schools?

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Hell no

If you are a college student you know the cruel reality: it is pretty dang expensive.
An entire year, 2 semesters, is a bit more than $4,000 at my college. People who pay $20,000+ a semester are idiots

You do realize there are people who don't have $4k a year, correct?

And that many careers are beginning to shun 2 year degrees, because there are so many more people with them?

If you're over 18 and you don't make at least 4 grand a year, there is a serious problem.


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Hell no

If you are a college student you know the cruel reality: it is pretty dang expensive.
An entire year, 2 semesters, is a bit more than $4,000 at my college. People who pay $20,000+ a semester are idiots

You do realize there are people who don't have $4k a year, correct?

And that many careers are beginning to shun 2 year degrees, because there are so many more people with them?

If you're over 18 and you don't make at least 4 grand a year, there is a serious problem.
I don't think anyone would disagree. That *is* a serious problem.


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I think you should get paid as a college student, actually.

Obviously not feasible, but...
>capitalism
Some of the Scandinavian countries actually do that, so it's not that unfeasible.
I know it's the dirty socialist in me talking, but I'd gladly pay 80% of my income to taxes if it meant we got a lot more things subsidized.
That's not really socialism. That's just letting the government dominate tertiary education.
I'm not talking about only education. I mean basic income, housing, school, healthcare, etc.


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon


 
 
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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more


 
 
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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.
Which is why you offer poor and homeless people government healthcare while allowing the middle and rich to buy their own, ensuring everybody has medical treatment available


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.
Which is why you offer poor and homeless people government healthcare while allowing the middle and rich to buy their own, ensuring everybody has medical treatment available

Why should I have to pay for my own when other people get their for free?


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.
Which is why you offer poor and homeless people government healthcare while allowing the middle and rich to buy their own, ensuring everybody has medical treatment available

Why should I have to pay for my own when other people get their for free?
You shouldn't. Every American should have access to government-subsidized healthcare.


 
 
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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.
Which is why you offer poor and homeless people government healthcare while allowing the middle and rich to buy their own, ensuring everybody has medical treatment available

Why should I have to pay for my own when other people get their for free?
PSU has a point here, you will run into problems with people getting an unfair access to medical care.

[The rest of this is for kinder]
People should be able to get access to the healthcare they need, regardless of financial status/income. I would be happy with either something similar to the singaporean model as Meta explained, where it's private healthcare but it works to give everyone access to the treatments they need. Or a properly socialised system where it is funded by taxes and everyone gets access to the treatment they need.

I don't care about what mechanism is used to provide the healthcare, it can be socialist or capitalist or whatever, but every human being has the right to healthcare should they need it. If that cannot be provided by a system then it doesn't work.
When you have the poor and the homeless dying in the street, it's broken. When you have people who commit suicide whilst waiting for a hospital bed on a psych ward, it's broken.


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.
Which is why you offer poor and homeless people government healthcare while allowing the middle and rich to buy their own, ensuring everybody has medical treatment available

Why should I have to pay for my own when other people get their for free?
Because you already do it on a daily basis; food, childcare, cell phones, etc., etc. some people get them for free while you pay. These are all necessities and some people are too poor to even afford it so they get help

There's a reason why a grown man being fed from the tit is looked down but not an infant, because an infant is helpless, the grown man isn't


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No, but I do believe it's in the government's interest to offer student loans at 0%.
Now that's a good idea

Pretty sure that's how it works with the current student finance england shite, although it looked like it adjusts for inflation over the years but the rough idea is that you only pay back when you are earning above a certain threshold without extortionate interest rates.

I reaaaaally should remember this crap, what with having a loan on it myself, but... ehhhh <.<
Probably one of the very britbong ideas I like but at the same time, no interest for degrees relating to fields of necessity such as medical, policing, military, etc and even a discount for those fields. Areas like women studies and bullshit degrees ought to be more strict with. After all, a degree means better job chance and thus more tax the government receives so it's an investment if somebody becomes a brain surgeon
The NHS subsidizes a lot of medical training in the UK with the general expectation that you will then go on to work with the NHS. Some people take advantage of this and then fuck off into private healthcare or going abroad to better job prospects though >_______> Slimy bastards.
Which is a good reason to allow privatization. A person will always choose the same job that pays more and it's so happens to be private healthcare does pay more
Which negates the whole point of universal access to healthcare, y'know, so the poor don't die of treatable diseases.
Which is why you offer poor and homeless people government healthcare while allowing the middle and rich to buy their own, ensuring everybody has medical treatment available

Why should I have to pay for my own when other people get their for free?
PSU has a point here, you will run into problems with people getting an unfair access to medical care.

[The rest of this is for kinder]
People should be able to get access to the healthcare they need, regardless of financial status/income. I would be happy with either something similar to the singaporean model as Meta explained, where it's private healthcare but it works to give everyone access to the treatments they need. Or a properly socialised system where it is funded by taxes and everyone gets access to the treatment they need.

I don't care about what mechanism is used to provide the healthcare, it can be socialist or capitalist or whatever, but every human being has the right to healthcare should they need it. If that cannot be provided by a system then it doesn't work.
When you have the poor and the homeless dying in the street, it's broken. When you have people who commit suicide whilst waiting for a hospital bed on a psych ward, it's broken.
With that, then how many people do you expect to pay for health insurance when they can go in and get treatment. These are not robots staffing hospitals who have to work long hours, they are humans trying to provide for themselves and for their families under extreme conditions where a person can die under there care. It's one thing to offer emergency medical services to certain people without insurance, but not to allow everybody with a simple cough


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No. But I I also think that universities shouldn't pick and choose based on what hobbies you have outside of chill and shit.


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The tuition bubble is going to burst in the next few years.  Where you get a degree carries little weight because education has globalized.  The tuition rates are extremely inflated.


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I think you should get paid as a college student, actually.

Obviously not feasible, but...
>capitalism
Some of the Scandinavian countries actually do that, so it's not that unfeasible.
I know it's the dirty socialist in me talking, but I'd gladly pay 80% of my income to taxes if it meant we got a lot more things subsidized.
That's not really socialism. That's just letting the government dominate tertiary education.
I'm not talking about only education. I mean basic income, housing, school, healthcare, etc.
Again like I said, that doesn't bear any resemblance to socialism. That's just inviting the government to every aspect of your life.


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I think you should get paid as a college student, actually.

Obviously not feasible, but...
>capitalism

My worthless welfare neighbor with five kids got $800 a month to take a yoga class.
you live off the grid though


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