Free School - Tax the 1%

29 grand isn't that big of a deal if you can pay it off over decades. Otherwise no one would have houses.

 

I think its outside my control so I'm gonna do the best I can and not waste my time complaining about it. This generation of college students is paying 3-4 times what their parents paid for college. That is a fact. Just because working hard means you can pay off your debt without it ruining your life doesn't mean you didn't screwed on the whole deal.

 

welcome to inflation: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=1&year1=1980&year2=2015

salaries are also up 3-4 times as well. are you going to [itch bay] about that too?

 

Giving a person a car isn't necessarily benefiting society, but providing the means for the most qualified people to become doctors, scientists, engineers, etc. is.

And, maybe it's just the poor ass teacher in me, but you all are ****ing kidding me about flippantly saying that $29,000 is just the cost of a car, right?

 

3-4 times inflation adjusted. Salaries absolutely are not up 3-4 times inflation adjusted.

 

you can't afford $250 a month? especially before you had kids? most of the 22 year olds I know spend far more than that per month on their bar bill.

 

That's what I'm sitting here thinking. That's more than I make in a year.

 

Tuition/fees at UT are probably up 3-4x since I attended 1998-2002. I don't know the exact numbers but it's insane

 

it's the cost of private education that has gone crazy:

 

Not when I was starting out with my $24,000 salaried jobs in my 20s, if I had any damn sense whatsoever.

 

well if you have a college degree then you are making well below average.

 

Government aid is why school has been sky rocketing anyways.

 

that should be very manageable for someone in their 20s.

 

http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/tuition-and-fees-and-room-and-board-over-time-1975-76-2015-16-selected-years

Public has too. This isn't even up for debate. It is absolutely not debatable that tuition costs 3-4 times as much for this generation as it did for their parents. And salaries haven't risen that much. (That's all inflation adjusted)

 

I do. And thankfully, I don't have any school debt to pay off because my parents were able to afford it. But while most college graduates make more than I do, it's not like everybody does. Some people go into professions (like teaching, as uni mentioned) that don't pay a lot. 29k is a lot to those people.

 

Did the average salary of those professions drop by 100k in four years or something? If you are planning on spending near 30 grand on education to get a job in a field that pays significantly less than that per year, you messed up. More free money for you is just going to mean more stupid decisions.

 

taxes are down salaries are up. my point is that negates a significant portion of the difference. my other point is it's manageable as long as you aren't an idiot.

 

You know that not everyone is able to get the job they went to school for, right?

 

the average k-12 teacher makes $44K a year in this country. they can afford $29K in debt.

 

the overwhelming majority of degrees don't lend themselves to one particular profession.