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Originally Posted by diracspike

but every working person is "paying back" the country by contributing to the economy, whether or not they have some piece of paper from school. I didn't even see the liberals had done this, too busy focusing on their ridiculous tax on stock buy backs they announced as well but this is also pretty bad. If you don't see the direct linear connect between more and more societal pressure for everyone to go to university no matter their degree, backed by cheap guaranteed government loans, and the exponential rise in university cost then i don't know what to tell you. And now with interest free loans that's only going to accelerate and cause this university mess to metastasize further until we have billions and billions of dollars in student debt backed by tax payers that compound further and further as universities increase their prices. Why the hell would anyone ever pay back an interest free loan? So what, just rack up a huge bill of university costs that we all have to back regardless utility and maybe pay it back if you feel like it, maybe not, all good? Most of the student debt in north america represents one of the largest bubbles of malinvestment ever assembled in human history and now we're going to add to it.



And before someone chimes in with the "it's none of your business what people study or where they go to school, every degree and education has worth..." etc refrain that people think justifies every dumb action taken on this file i would love not to worry about where people go or what they study. If you want to light tens of thousands of dollars on fire and waste your 20s studying something with no utility i'd be perfectly happy to let you go ahead and do that, couldn't care less. But when you demand interest free loans, or debt forgiveness paid by me, now you're forcing me to care because you're asking for my money. We have entirely too many people going to university getting taxpayer money to study things that have no utility or use, and that's the free market telling you that not me. The free market decides what is of use and economically viable or not and you get into trouble going against it. You won't find a job with an art history degree that pays anything, but you can get high paying jobs operating shovel at an oil sands mine or as a drilling hand on a natural gas rig. Why? Because it turns out we all have a lot more need for diesel to move our products and natural gas to keep us warm than we do for someone to tell us about the evolution of french impressionism.

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