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1/27/2016 6:30:59 PM
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First your talking about less than one percent of the US population has ever served in the military, that's not many people taking that option. Second, a wealthy kid going to got that money through family doing something to earn if. If it was through lottery winnings or luck, accounting for another percent smaller than one, that is the arguable piece. Your not entitled to a free college education like your not entitled to just wake up one day and say I'm wealthy and boom it's there. Kids that have that got it from someone else's hard work, in one fashion or another. Telling people they have to pool there money, taxation, to pay for every single kid to have the chance to go to college, regardless of the fact 60-70 percent of kids that start college end up in an unrelated field or flat out don't finish, is a waste. Kids that want college, there's grants, tuition assistance, military service or get a job and work through it. Is the university system broken in terms of what they expect a kid to pay for college, yes. But the solution to that isn't in forcing others to pay that cost for them.
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Edited by Rei: 1/27/2016 7:27:33 PMYes, what the wealthy have are things that they have due to the hard work of SOMEONE at some point. I don't have anything against people leaving their wealth to their kids. (Putting aside people who earned their enormous wealth through historical injustices). What's breaking the system is that they keep getting richer from it, and the poor are getting poorer due to ridiculous fees, and lack of social help for basic things like healthcare (you know, things that happen because that's how life works, but you can't afford to pay for it), and the lack of a living wage. I don't know how a first world country can be okay with ANY of it's citizens not being able to earn a living wage. I don't think it's okay for good, hard working, intelligent people to be refused an education because they can't pay the ridiculous tuition, or have to spend the next 3-5 years after graduation paying it off. Everyone needs an equal chance at a start in life. That is how you contribute to a better future for an entire country. I don't think it has to be "free", just subsidized; and also only for the first 4 years (or however many years the degree normally takes) to prevent people from abusing the system. I think that's reasonable.
