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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by dyadic on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:53PM (#23035331)
It is free to the person that receives it.

Imagine I bake and give you a cake, it's still a "free cake" even though I've put the work into baking it and other people have put the work into harvesting the ingredients and bringing them to me.

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Re:Colleges at the breaking point, forcing ‘hard choices’ ab... by pmorici on Thursday April 30, 2020 @07:02PM (#23037279)
No it isn't, presumably that person will graduate and go on to have a career where they are paid a salary and pay taxes on that salary. How is paying higher taxes for one's entire working life different than making payments on a loan with lower taxes?
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