Should Two- and Four-Year Degrees Be Free?

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BidenPresident

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The Biden administration has proposed reforms to ease the student-debt crisis. But a real solution must upend a system of cascading inequities. Restoring the dream of higher education as an equalizer requires a holistic solution that attacks all the sources of the problem: a lack of investment in common goods, growing tuition and student debt and exploitative labor practices that undermine the quality of education.

The rise in tuition costs, combined with the growing economic value of a college degree, fuels the crisis of student debt, which today totals $1.7 trillion. To pay for a year of school, three-quarters of American families pay at least 24 percent of their average family income, even after grants are distributed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opinion/community-college-student-debt-sanders.html
 
BidenPresident said:
The last 40 years have seen an ever-widening income gap between those with college degrees and those without. Over that interval, incomes have soared for those with advanced degrees and declined for those with high-school diplomas or less.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opinion/community-college-student-debt-sanders.html
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and if your desired outcome is to reduce those higher incomes to become a median with lower incomes, then make them free. Microsoft certifications went through the same thing when they first came out..........
 
BidenPresident said:
When did you drop out of high school? Tenth grade?
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I'm sorry....did you really think it was necessary to demonstrate your ignorance again?......believe me when I say, we are all convinced.......

now, here's your free Mechanical Engineering diploma.....wear it in good health......

https://www.dreamteee.com/mechanical-engineer-s-brain?retailProductCode=6369D664D7F4E3-96486B11C6FF-GS1-TC0-BLK&size=lrg&gclid=CjwKCAjwnPOEBhA0EiwA609ReaeemX4cKF2wW9L5TgBJxo5uYUkqMZ5N_JJg9tTEYwdkJv3cyiA16BoCMV8QAvD_BwE
 
AProudLefty said:
Let me get this right... a degree is worthless if one got a full scholarship for it?
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that isn't exactly what i said. those that have excelled throughout their academic careers and earned scholarships to higher education are not obtaining totally worthless pieces of paper........but make them all free, and they will all be totally worthless
 
SmarterthanYou said:
that isn't exactly what i said. those that have excelled throughout their academic careers and earned scholarships to higher education are not obtaining totally worthless pieces of paper........but make them all free, and they will all be totally worthless
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Still makes no sense. If someone gets a BA in mechanical engineering from MIT, and paid no tuition, it's worthless? That makes no sense.
 
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