Jeff Stahler for April 08, 2015

Colleges have increased their cost of tuition, board, and books MUCH higher than inflation for YEARS!

But at least state taxpayers got income tax cuts, now that states don’t fund education adequately. Soak the next generation for fun and profit, because they don’t vote yet.

Sorry dad, but SOMEONE has to pay the multimillion dollar salaries.

Yeah, back in his day the students and their parents paid for their higher education, now as ARodney says, the tax payers should be paying for it. Excuse me?

@jegar48

You might wish to look up the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Morrill Act of 1862, the GI Bill, and the National Defense Education Act of 1960.

Public support of education has been a point of pride for the US for a very long time. Now, of course, the Koch’s et aliae don’t want an educated populace. It reduces profits.

fusilierJames 2:24

Sigh. When I was at Northwestern, in the Middle Ages, three thousand bucks would get you a year of schooling, including books, meals, a room in the dorm. 13 years later, I paid a little over 100 bucks a credit in grad school. I thought I was being robbed…

Giving up his frat house diet is wishful shrinking

The average college graduate pays about $5800 more a year in federal taxes than the average high school graduate. Over 30 years, that totals about $172,000. If that’s divided by the 4 years it takes to get a college education, the government would break even if it paid every student $42,000 a year to attend school.This doesn’t even consider that with the degree, the person is less likely to ever need unemployment or welfare, that more students would complete high school if they could see a clear way to a really good job, and that they would be enriching the Social Security and Medicare funds. They would also be paying a larger amount in all other types of taxes. And they would be buying more products which would boost the economy, and put more people to work at jobs that require all different levels of education.The best investment we could make to keep America strong is to not just forgive all student loans but to make all higher education, as long as the student is making decent grades, totally free, and increase the number of schools and teachers to make room for all who can profit from the education.We don’t, even at a time of high unemployment, have so much a lack of jobs as we have a lack of people who have the skills to perform the jobs that are available- in other words, a lack of education.

Martin O’Malley for prez.

Back in the middle of the last century went to college to the tune of $800 per semester for all the credits you could stand to take.

Re: taxpayer funding of education and where does that money go? In 49 of 50 states, the highest paid public official is either a basketball or football coach at a state-run college.

My total tuition to obtain a bachelor’s was less than my son paid last year for one semester. It is the LOSS of taxpayer cash that has raised tuition, salaries for professors has remained about constant in real dollars, while “admnistrators” Have earned more, but the REAL MONEY in higher education isn’t in teaching science, but coaching football or basketball. Hmm, most coaches earn more than their University Chacellors, so what does that say?

“No Classes Above Athletics” is the real NCAA.