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It’s disgusting. My family feels your frustration as well. My parents don’t contribute anything to my education, and yet they are forced to pay hefty taxes to subsidize the education of other kids. For the amount of money they give me, I might as well not have any parents, so why should certain people get a government scholarship (for having poor parents) when I don’t? </p>
<p>The problem is that although people acknowledge that tuition prices have gotten out of hand, we simultaneously have these same people thinking that Pell grants and government-backed loans are great, wonderful things that make college more affordable. In reality, they are the sole reason that college tuition has increased in price more quickly than anything else in the economy. People need to be educated on the truth of these matters, and we need the government to get out if we ever want college to be affordable again.</p>