Same way it's fair to ask people without school age kids to kick

in local taxes - usually real estate taxes - just like people with school age kids. Because society benefits.

Is it fair for universities to ask those who can to pay the full nut, some of which is helping to finance those who can't? Some of those who "can" do so with considerable difficulty.

I don't favor "free tuition for all" for a lot of reasons. But education is a "public good" which benefits all of us. I have seen too many people, anecdotally, who were all about higher taxes when their own kids were in school (pre-college), but fought taxes tooth and nail as soon as they weren't. They didn't mind others financing their kids. But don't ask them to finance the kids coming up next.

People suck in too many ways. I really do aspire to be a hermit when I grow up. But anyway, something absolutely needs to be done about the way higher ed is financed in this country, and part of the suite of solutions may well be sharing of the burden across society - because society does benefit from an educated populace. But I think we have to look at lots of other things - there are alternatives to traditional 4 yr college for many people with their own aspirations. A career in tech, for instance, might be better served another way. Just leaving tuition to market forces doesn't quite work.

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