2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bill: “People like me and Hillary can afford to go to college. The government can’t help everyone." [View all]JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)Nonsense to that. I support direct taxation on the wealthy. I do not support this form of what you call "taxation on the wealthy," which if anything might merely penalize their children. Means tests are invitations to abuse on both sides. Public universities should be a free, public good, as they are in many civilized societies around the world. Tuition in the end punishes the poor more than the rich, obviously, no matter what complicated, fancy, means-tested ways of "help" (usually: debt) are employed. Public universities used to be free in the United States! Address that as an issue: Why the hell is this unaffordable? Why shouldn't the wealthy be taxed to pay for this, rather than "forced" to pay tuition (ha, ha!) for their own children (which is just another way of promoting inequality, of course).