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 Originally Posted by dranger7070
As for higher level education, the government seriously needs to stop giving away grants and student loans to everyone like its pretend money. There needs to be a limit on how much you can borrow and/or some sort of qualification exam that you have to take. Too many people, including friends of mine have wracked up over $50k in student loan debt and are still considered a freshmen. Its sickening to think about how royally fucked these individuals are later in life.
On top of this, throwing this amount of money at universities all over the country leads to them being able to jack up their tuition costs because there's such a high demand for their "services." I don't see how this has been allowed to continue for this long. 
The grants are actually great. They're pretty low, and the costs of state run colleges, especially community ones, are quite low. The main problem with government WRT loans is laws not allowing them to be like normal loans. The inability for students to default on them through bankruptcy is an enormous driver of skyrocketing costs.
This is the epitome of an issue that is solved by smarter laws, not by hopping onto either side of the false pro-government vs anti-government debate
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