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dd36
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Or to do exactly as the OP said: this is what we’ll pay per student.
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freewilly1040
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Is this what is being proposed though? I agree with this approach, but I haven't seen the proposals being framed this way.
conanbatt
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School vouchers.
Still bad for college: why give free money to the richest of society?
leetcrew
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it's not really giving them free money when they've already paid way more than the value of a single voucher in taxes that year.
ndiscussion
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Because they will stay in our country and help us develop the most productive economy on earth. imo.
conanbatt
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Thats usually critiqued as "trickle down economics", curiously by the same group that advocates free college.
dd36
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Because relatively speaking, there’s not that many of them and it’s only fair. The rich get Medicare, right?
conanbatt
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Medicare definitely has regressive components to it. But I don't know enough about the aggregates to make a conclusion.
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