Poll: Who should be most responsible for making tuition to a state college affordable? / LJWorld.com

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Response		Percent	Votes
State legislature		42%	205
Board of regents		24%	116
School administration		12%	60
Federal government		10%	50
Students and their families		9%	45
Other (please state in comments)		1%	7
Total	483

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kuguardgrl13 1 year, 1 month ago

Absolutely the Board of Regents. If you let the legislature decide tuition, you get Colorado.

Did_I_say_that 1 year, 1 month ago

College tuition is a case study of government funded hyper-inflation. There is a time-line coordination between the sky rocketed cost of tuition and available government funding (grants, loans, etc.). The never-ending supply of government money is just a student loan away from the insatiable appetite of the bureaucracy that is higher education. Students have been willing to sign on to the high price of education only because there is no correlation as to the real cost. The deferred payment schedule (loans) provides no understanding of the real cost of education.

If students were to earn and pay for a college education as it is consumed the price would be driven down post haste.

"Who should be most responsible for making tuition to a state college affordable?" The consumers' demand would set affordable rates if it was allowed to operate unmolested by government funding.

merrill 1 year, 1 month ago

When our local tax dollars go to wealthy corporations instead of higher education of course receiving a college degree will become more expensive.

Corporate welfare is such a waste of tax dollars.

Did_I_say_that 1 year, 1 month ago

merrill -

This claim is unfounded. Please cite and document one example where local tax dollars "go to wealthy corporations." Tax breaks, write-offs, depreciation, etc., all legal deductions, may lower the amount of money a corporation is taxed yet, that is a far cry from "tax dollars go(ing) to wealthy corporations."
Does a person who owns a lawn care service get to deduct the cost of fuel, equipment, and labor from his gross income prior to calculating the business' tax burden?

Don't answer that; it was a rhetorical question. Of course they do. Do you consider that type of deduction one wherein "tax dollars go to a business?"

Okay, answer that question.

Please describe how "local tax dollars" fund college degrees.

(Local taxes: taxes paid by an individual to his or her locality. This includes city income, property, sewer, water, school, and other taxes.... http://www.allbusiness.com/glossaries/local-taxes/4947216-1.html)