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Originally Posted by wittynickname
Meanwhile college tuition exploded because there was no longer any money to pay for funding, because we're too busy putting money into tanks that we don't need, bombing innocent people in distant countries in a misguided and unwinnable "war on terror", and have spent billions of dollars in yet another misguided "war on drugs."
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It's great that you managed to pay off student loans, but the point is that you never should have had to take out that many loans to begin with. We should be investing in education, in clean energy, in fixing our crumbling infrastructure. Instead you have Congress wasting time, energy, and a crapload of taxpayer money to try again and again to defund Planned Parenthood, to stop the Affordable Care Act, to investigate Bengazi again.
Also what kind of awful logic is that? There were plenty of people in history who had to labor 16 hours a day just to make ends meet for their families, and because of technology we no longer have to do things like that--do you think those people begrudge us that? Come on, man. Have some empathy.
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College tuition exploded because colleges had access to seemingly unlimited funding---otherwise known as student loans, which for the most part are not discharge able in bankruptcy. Because everyone "has" to have a college degree, people take out the loans (backed or funded by the federal government) without regard to whether college makes sense for them personally or to what the money is paying for. And considering that State universities are generally funded by the states (and student loans) (and private universities don't get any state funding), your commentary about putting money into tanks and the like makes no sense.
I disagree that I shouldn't have had to take our loans to fund my education. Knowing that I was paying for my education made me a better consumer of it, and made me make prudent decisions once I graduated. In short, the loans made me act like an adult and having skin in the game made me invested in the outcome of my education. Taking that "incentive" away (or heavily reducing it) does no one any favors.