Unless college payments get tied to student’s own work-study, obligatory physician/military pattern residency years in every field and future income, cost of attendance will keep going up so paying parents and system keep paying bills of other parents.
Students are the consumers and beneficiaries so it should be about their income, it shouldn’t be about parental income. Low parental income should be considered for admission boost to make up for that but cost should be same for every applicant and they should be responsible for their payments. Either education should be free for all or for none.