Why taxpayers should support university educations

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Anyways, look at Europe

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<p>yes, let’s look at Europe. Open a newspaper.</p>

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I will pull that PhD card again. 45% of ALL doctorate recipients in the US are foreign born and 55% of all engineering PhDs are foreign born. What does that mean?

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<p>It means the US has the best university system (a mix of public and private) in the world.</p>

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The question is: where is the money coming from? Of course it comes from the people, but in times of slow growth, there needs to be a stimulus. Education had long term benefits. Is higher education necessary? Of course it is. Unless you are willing to rebuild the K-12 education from the ground up.

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<p>Investing in education is not a stimulus. As you said, it is long term.</p>

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Do you honestly believe we are doing a good job educating kids these days? No, far from it.

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<p>Do you realize that spending more money does not guarantee better results? We have tripled (in real terms) the per student spending on K-12 education since 1970, and the achievement results show zero improvement. <a href=“http://reason.com/assets/mc/dpowell/2011_01/derugy-column-chart2.jpg[/url]”>http://reason.com/assets/mc/dpowell/2011_01/derugy-column-chart2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;