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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by thatjsguy on Saturday August 25, 2018 @07:48PM (#17843254)
What if we just like... paid for school with taxes like literally every other country? (Trust me, it shouldn’t cost as much as it does to get a degree. I promise it can be and, in fact, used to be affordable.)
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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by wtvanhest on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:43PM (#17843497)
We need a mechanism to control costs. The loans are just one side of the story. The majority of public universities are rapidly increasing their cost structures.

That doesn't work longterm.

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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by dev_dull on Saturday August 25, 2018 @08:07PM (#17843344)
In many ways taxes do pay for it. For example around 50% of state school tuition is paid for by taxes. Yet sky-high, emphatically unpayable debt persists and is getting worse.
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Re:The Student Debt Problem Is Worse Than We Imagined by onlyrealcuzzo on Sunday August 26, 2018 @12:45AM (#17844302)
That's because if you can pay more, colleges charge more.
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