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> You have the right to a degree in XYZ... you should NOT have the right to a taxpayer backed grant/aid/loan/whatever to gain said degree unless you're on a reasonable path to become a tax payer yourself as soon as you are done with the degree.

you said a lot of things with a lot of assumptions in that sentence

> You have the right to a degree in XYZ... you should NOT have the right to a taxpayer backed grant/aid/loan/whatever to gain said degree

If it becomes unreasonable/unfeasible to have a degree without a taxpayer backed grant/aid/loan, then right to a degree implies right to that aid.

> unless you're on a reasonable path to become a tax payer yourself as soon as you are done with the degree.

You are assuming that the only way a person pays back that money is by tax payer account. They could also be paying back that money by being a nurse improving people's healthy making population more productive.

At the end of the day, you are looking at this all wrong by being very ideological about it. You need to look at it from what's best for the country in long term.