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Friday, May 27, 2016

This Is What Is Driving Up College Tuition Costs

By The Common Constitutionalist

Have you noticed that higher education is the only industry in America, other than maybe the “renewable energy” industry, that never gets any cheaper? Businesses in every other industry must compete for customers by cost cutting and innovating, allowing them to often offer a better product for less money.  Yet big education can continue to raise the cost of a college education almost recklessly without incurring the wrath of either their patrons or the unwashed 99%, who protest the runaway cost of every other “big” industry.  Ever wonder why that is and why the 99% unwashed protest class leaves them alone?

Well, for starters, the left understands that virtually all colleges and universities are themselves run by leftists, where the leadership of the protest class more than likely received their training on how to become a radical. It would therefore be a bit unseemly to bite off the hand that fed you, as it were.........Due to the potentially traumatizing effect of a student loan on a lower income student, more colleges are offering “No Loans. These are also referred to as “free tuition” programs for low income students.  This all sounds great, until you realize that someone has to pay the tuition, as nothing is truly free. And if the low income student isn’t paying tuition, the rest of the unwitting student body must pick up the slack by chipping in a bit more, thereby raising their already astronomic student loan amounts......Colleges are run like quasi-branches of the government with their layers and layers of bureaucracy.....To Read More....

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