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States refuse to fund higher ed? List from top to bottom
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(10-05-2020, 01:15 PM)ss20ts Wrote: Why should taxpayers fund colleges? Taxpayers in the Northeast are taxed up the wahzoo and pay the highest taxes in the nation. They're done. They've got nothing left to give. All of us on here are paying for our education and not relying on taxpayers to fund it.

If you’re taxed for certain services (i.e healthcare, higher ed, etc) then you’re not paying it out of pocket. So instead of paying anywhere from $5,000-$50,000 for an education, and paying a handsome amount of additional interest to the federal goverment anyway (or worse, the bank) you might pay that over the course of your lifetime. Instead of paying $10-$400 for healthcare every month through you’re employer, you might pay $400 per year.

Honestly, we could take 3/4 of our ridiculous federal defense budget and funnel it to funding these things that actually benefit Americans and we’d never have to see an increase in taxes. The military would have to live without its plans for sharks with lasers attached to their heads and invisible quinjet, but they’d be all set for their current costs and reasonable increases.
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(10-05-2020, 02:42 PM)sambam0812 Wrote: If you’re taxed for certain services (i.e healthcare, higher ed, etc) then you’re not paying it out of pocket. So instead of paying anywhere from $5,000-$50,000 for an education, and paying a handsome amount of additional interest to the federal goverment anyway (or worse, the bank) you might pay that over the course of your lifetime. Instead of paying $10-$400 for healthcare every month through you’re employer, you might pay $400 per year.

Medicare/Medicaid costs $1,300,000,000,000 per year and that's only going up. That is a burden of close to $4000 PER YEAR when spread out over each man, woman, and child in the country.

Don't think that just because you centralize something and spread the costs out, you end up spending less. All you do is hide the apparent costs. You think something's expensive NOW, just wait til government decides to control it. 

That's a big reason why higher SCHOOLING costs so much. The burden of payment is spread out over time and people. Makes me appreciate the people who go non-traditional routes, like in here. Cutting-edge folks, to be sure.
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Don't expect the government to be frugal, conservative, or fiscally responsible when spending your tax dollars. Remember those $10,000 hammers and toilets? We've seen this nonsense locally when the state built a visitor's center. They sent over $10,000 on photo frames. One frame alone cost over $1,000 for a metal 8x10 frame. Seriously? What does the state care? It's not their money.
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The reason Bernie wants FREE education is his own State is the second-worst in taking care of its own students.  He wants other States to pay for Vermont kind? Undecided
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