The debate that didn't matter. Maybe its time to start voting!

[TexasTowelie]

23. Yes I did post that thread in the Arizona Group.

The price of tuition should take into consideration the actual cost of providing that education. The gap between the tuition price and the actual cost is an expense carried by taxpayers which means that people that did not get the opportunity to attend college are subsidizing the education for those that do attend college. In a sense, that is redistributive economics which hurts the poor and less educated. Offering free tuition and student loan debt forgiveness by increasing taxes is unfair to the people that we are supposedly trying to assist.

While the merits of whether providing higher education based entirely upon taxes vs. tuition can be debated, I look upon it as whether grown adults should recognize both the benefits and liabilities of obtaining higher education. Dumping tax money into higher ed isn't going to lower the cost of that education--if anything it perpetuates the cycle of irresponsibility.

Controlling the salaries of administrators and coaches along with making better utilization of existing facilities will have a larger impact on tuition. I think that Bernie and Elizabeth should realize the best way to lower tuition is to clamp down on some of the state of the art facilities and dormitories that are the equivalent of luxury hotels. Provide the facilities to have a solid educational environment which includes Internet service in the dorms, but eliminate the high end lobbies and facilities like this one paid for by the taxpayers: