Would you support lower tuitions for college?

Question

If some of your tax money actually went back to helping you get educated and higher paying jobs to contribute back with a higher revenue.

Looks like a win win but many will jump on this as a socialist program.

Oats you support preemptive wars but not this? Both are not included in the constitution.

Answer 1

Sure, if the left-wing loonie professors leave the scene.

Answer 2

Yes, I think an affordable education is important in creating a healthy economy. But keeping higher education out of the reach of middle and lower income students just furthers the gap between the haves and have nots, and unfortunately, there are some in political office that like that just fine.....

Where I do think that colleges should be more affordable, I think that there should be more scholarship money available to academically deserving students than those who get money based on athletics. The class nerd who needs a few $$ to become a teacher or a chemist has a better chance of doing what he goes to school for than the the athlete who goes to school for four, five, six years to win trophies from the school and then blows a knee or tears a rotator cuff and can't do anything but pick up menial jobs because his/her athletic prowess was what was encouraged and others took their tests

Answer 3

Hmm, well if it's MY tax money alone, then you can throw the socialist accusation out the window; it's not redistributing everyone's wealth, just mine towards something that I would probably want anyway. College tuition costs just keep rising too, and many universities, especially larger ones, are corrupt at the top of their leadership in my experience. Maybe giving them less money to work with (and I'm pretty sure most colleges could work with less funds) would help them stretch their dollar a little better. Sure, I might support such a program. While education might be a socialist program (actually, probably is) if we consider the requirements to provide for yourself well, it is essential and so must be offered as some type of starting point if anyone is to expect someone to progress in life.

Answer 4

No. I don't want to pay for some rich kid to get an education. We in the middle class cannot get a college education without taking out a huge mortgage on our future. And 90 percent of college educations are worthless anyway. A trade worker makes more money than most college graduates. Let the elites pay for the colleges. Get them off the backs of the working class.

Answer 5

First, colleges, as well as our k-12 education, needs to priortize it's spending. Every year we spend more money on education, yet every year it gets worse. More drop outs, lower test scores. Start paying teachers on merit and relevance to the course they teach. Get rid of, or at least get under control, special interest groups like the teachers' union and/or the DOE.

After the funds actually go toward education, and not other crap like outlandish sports stadiums, sure. We can lower tuition. Education, especially higher education, is needed for the survival of our nation.

Answer 6

YES I WOULD!
I think that it is imperative that tuition prices go down. Because our nation has yet to face the fact that we are competing in a global economy and that companies in the USA aren't necessarily going to hire Americans, they are going to hire the most qualified person for the job, who just might happen to be from Japan. Also, many teenagers give up in high school and drop out because they feel that they are not going to achieve anything by completing high school becuase they know taht they can never afford college. If there is any hope for the future, college tuition MUST be lowered.

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Answer 7

My tax money is being used to support colleges. All state sponsored colleges get state support. States get their revenue from tax dollars.

Community Colleges in the US are very affordable.

The problem with kids being educated isn't because of $$, there are ways around it. It's because of drive and ambition. It's because of parents and the standards they set.

Answer 8

College is NOT a right.....la de da....etc... Certainly the more educated one is perhaps the better paying long term job, however, not everybody is meant for college, there for leave it as it is.....those who want it will find a way and those who don't and daddy say so and send s yo..they will do it anyways....as for taxing so all can have one......nope nope nope...and by the way ............it would be a socialist program that would only educate to the lowest de nonminator.

Answer 9

Public universities are getting tax money that is supposed to be helping to fund education. Most of the costs to attend universities has more to do with the upkeep of buildings & salaries of staff than anything else. Then toss in their big research facilities & athletic departments depending on a school's reputation & you've got the issues right there.

Answer 10

It's a joke. A freind told me that when the kids get ot college they cannot read and write and they have remedial classes for them to catch up. His wife subs and for the eighth graders gave them pictures and a big crayon. Most go to college for fun and a vacation. The schools today are just like when I went. I think it is nutty to bring a bunch of foreign folks over here and pay for their college to become doctors (70% by 2020*). Why not pay for some say Cawkaysion American, Black American, Japanese American, Mexican american, Cuban American, Korean American, Chinese American, etc, that are here now and help them with their school costs.

It is insane to bring people here to be doctors. Don't get me wrong I have a Nigerian doctor and he is good and leearning English pretty good as the Indian doctor, but why go out of the country and give them the house and mess over Americans.

But yes I would be glad t help with tuition, but I want to see the spread sheet on the schools as there's a ton of fat at them and most of it is bull sh**. That may be a way to save our children and country. Just look at the way those youngsters behaved at Harvard. I do not think it is a socialist program since a broke family just barely getting by has to pay to go to college, get extra jobs and then the kid has t work there rearend off at extra jobs, when someone making $100 less gets it handed t them, is that socialism? besides how many do you know that are flipping hamburgers witha college education? To me it's a watse of time for most. I should have kept at my job and would have been better off. Instead of paying a big loan off I could have been making money all that time and less hangovers.

Next atime a bunch of them that have graduated are at a hotel that just got hired and are in training, it's ajoke. Save that money and start flipping, they will be better off, besides the illegals are gettingall the jobs. take care.

Answer 11

I support it.


Colleges across America are becoming very greedy (almost at a Corporate America state). It's time the government steps in before they get out of control.

Personally, I don't care if it's a Socialist program. It's for a better good, and that's all that matters.