Why american taxpayer should pay for someone’s degree in basket weaving?
While doctors and lawyers grind 100 hrs/week like crazy to pay off their college debt?
Thank you for pointing out this insanity, we'd all be better off if doctors didn't have to spend a few years grinding out million-dollar debts, and then go on to print millions over millions over the rest of their career.
I have a radical idea. Make medical school free, and expand residency slots. Whatever this will cost will more than be made up by a dramatic reduction in doctor salaries[1]... And medical costs in this country coming back down to Earth.
We don't charge people for elementary and high school because an educated population is necessary for the well-being of the country. Well, so is the availability of doctors.
[1] The average general practitioner's lifetime earnings are 8.5 million. I'll happily pay a million for their schooling, if that number could be halved.
there is nothing free, it is just someone else's money.
the money wasted on bailing out student loans - has already been pocketed by Betsy Devos alike, maybe we should stop funding 18 y.o. for useless degrees from College of Lost Hope, AL.
public schools are funded with housing property taxes, they are NOT free. Compare house prices in good school district vs bad and their tax bills