[MartinAlbertsen]

I was thinking exactly the same, although a bit less passive agressive in the tone :)

In Denmark (where I'm from), there is a system where education is free. There are private schools, but to my knowledge no private universities. Your entry ticket to a university is your grade from high-school. You actually get some money while studying. You can still chose to do a studen loan on top of that, but typically people come out of university with maximum $20k in debt most way less.

I have many friends that are absolutely brilliant and successful, who would probably not have been able to afford a university degree.

One thing is what that does to the crazy debt many people get in other countries, but think about what it does for low-income areas, immigrant and integration and general inequality of a population.

By all means, Denmark is not perfect. But I think we nailed it with access to education.

And yes. Our tax pressure is pretty high. But surprisingly not that much higher than for example California and NY.

Martin