High Tuition + High Aid = Higher Prices for All?

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<p>It’s counterintuitive, but the way the government can cheapen education is to not subsidize it.</p>

[turtlerock]

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@chrisrb

We could have that again (as many other countries do today). It’s only a matter of voters deciding what’s more important: maintaining extreme tax breaks for a few ultra-wealthy multimillionaire and billionaire citizens, or the opportunity of an good education to all the nation’s young people.

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<p>CA residents just passed Prop 30 last year, which calls for an increase in the state sales and other taxes to fund a bunch of things (due to prior years’ cuts) including a big allotment to higher education. UC and CSU tuition increases, some of the fastest growing in the nation, halted.</p>