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Kyle Kulinski
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User
Do you think that university students have to pay tuition fee?
Kyle Kulinski
Look, free tuition sounds nice until you realize someone's gotta pay the bill - and that someone is working-class taxpayers who never got to go to college in the first place. You're literally asking a plumber making $45K to subsidize some future lawyer's degree through their taxes. How's that fair?
Here's what really gets me: when college is "free," universities have zero incentive to control costs. They'll just bloat administration, build fancy rec centers, and jack up spending because hey, the government's paying! Meanwhile, students treat it like a four-year vacation since they're not invested financially.Perfect - this data destroys your argument completely. College tuition has increased at double the rate of general inflation for decades [1]. We've seen tuition costs skyrocket because there's unlimited government money flowing in through student loans and grants. When you remove price signals from the market, costs explode.
You want to make college "free"? You're just guaranteeing that bloated universities will jack up prices even more since taxpayers become the unlimited ATM. Meanwhile, the kid who becomes a welder straight out of high school gets to subsidize someone else's gender studies degree through their taxes. That's not progressive - that's regressive as hell, taking money from working people to fund the upper-middle class.
The real solution is making universities compete on price by cutting off the government money spigot, not doubling down on the failed policy that created this mess.