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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by nostrebored on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:46AM (#17781010)
Government funds most public universities to an absurd degree. Tuition is a drop in the bucket for most schools. Government loans are an extra tax on everyone, and are best seen as a money transfer from all taxpayers to public institutions.
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Re:NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students by rrcaptain on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:52AM (#17787376)
Government loans aren't a tax on those who don't need them, who are the very people who should be taxed the most.

And states only fund roughly half of school's out of their budgets and that number has decreased in recent years.

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