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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by qaq on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:32PM (#29923759)
thats great in theory the thing is though that US student will make 15K more after tax so break even will be 3.3y
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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by lapsedacademic on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:43PM (#29923908)
1. That number seems way off. What are your assumptions?

2. I haven't looked at the data, but I'm going to go out on a VERY short branch here and assert that the entire delta between US and CA tax rates is not consumed by higher education.

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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by qaq on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:23PM (#29924529)
this would obviously depend on the field but generally there is significantly lower comp in Canada vs US for the same job. Taxes are lower in US too.
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Re:More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest nu... by lapsedacademic on Thursday January 13, 2022 @01:36PM (#29924693)
> but generally there is significantly lower comp in Canada

Right, I figured. This is entirely orthogonal to the discussion about the problems with higher ed in the us...

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