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[quote=Anonymous]My children were not the recipients of college aid, but I see nothing problematic about the children of people of lesser means getting financial aid. I'm 100% supportive of policies that try to level the playing field. I also think most of the people posting on this thread should pay a lot more in taxes.

Those of you posting that college should be free for everyone are presumably aware that that would be financed by higher taxes on upper-middle and upper class people? So such people will pay one way or another. I agree that funding college via taxes and allowing everyone to go free would be better, because (as this discussion illustrates) the only way to generate widespread support for aid to the poor is to give aid to everyone.

But it's not clear to me how free college would work in a country with so many private universities that people want to go to. I assume in a world of free college, Harvard would still be offering aid to lower-income students because they clearly see that as part of their mission. [/quote]

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