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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IP is engaging in what is called "opportunity hoarding" and if you believe the things coming out of the Brookings Institue is a contributing factor to growing income inequality in America.[/quote]

It is not "opportunity hoarding" to question a system that requires upper middle class Americans to have superhuman self control, so that they can save several times the net value of their home (which they needed a 30 year mortgage to afford) in order to send their kinds to college, when they don't even know in advance if their kid will be college material.  Other nations don't do that.  Look at Canada, which has a great low-cost public university system and almost no private universities.  Most advanced countries are like this.  We also used to have much cheaper state universities, but most state schools are "public" in name only, using tuition for the bulk of their revenue.  Why does the US cling to what are clearly inferior ways of financing public goods like education and health care when there are plenty of examples of ways of doing it better.[/quote]

Many in the UMC, myself included, did not bootstrap our way into the UMC. The majority of us were born on third base, but think we've hit a home run. There is a lot of research out there that shows a lot of entitlements - the mortgage interest tax deduction, subsidized tuition at state schools by and far benefits the UMC at the expense of lower classes. I'm actsullt all for charging tuition at schools on a sliding scale based on income and ability to pay, even at "state" schools.

I am curious how you would see a system like Canada's operating in the U.S. We have private schools, religious schools, state schools - over 3,700 institutions of higher ed in the U.S. alone. It simply dwarfs anything any other country has. [/quote]

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