There’s a lot of talk about student loan relief. Democrats
are heroes, pushing to help relieve the debt burden, while Republicans are
evil, wanting students to die broke in the gutter. Okay, but it seems to me
that student loan debt wouldn’t be nearly such a big deal if college tuition
hadn’t gone up 300% in 20
years! Colleges and universities are mostly run by liberals, so how
come they’re ripping off students like this? There’s no excuse for this
ridiculous highway robbery, and this is what’s making student loans so
ridiculously expensive and such a long-term debt burden. (Well, that and the
awful job market for recent college graduates.)
So, if Democrats really care about student debt and
accessibility of higher education, why aren’t they talking about capping
tuition rates or at least looking into the reasons for its ridiculous increases
over the past two decades? It seems to me that this might help a little bit
more than some temporary student loan relief. (Well, that, or else maybe create
a business-friendly environment so they can get jobs and pay off the student
loans themselves.) But it’s just a suggestion.
All I know is, if this were any other industry raising
prices this high for no reason, gouging young people into indentured servitude
for years on end to pay them off, I’m pretty sure that the Democrats would be
railing against it (and rightly so!). So I think while they’re at it fighting the debt stuff, it might
be nice to solve the source of the problem first: sky-high tuition costs! (But
I’m not opposed to debt relief. It’s just that it looks to me like that’s more
taxpayer-funded government debt while we’re already dangerously in debt as a
nation, when maybe the real guilty party is the ridiculously unfairly high
tuition. I can’t think of any reason for tuitions to triple in twenty years, now: can you?)
