- The others are trying to tell you, in good faith, why they think such a move would be politically intractable. Grandstanding rhetoric doesn't help your argume

- The others are trying to tell you, in good faith, why they think such a move would be politically intractable. Grandstanding rhetoric doesn't help your argument. - Not requiring your parents to be rich is otherwise known as intergenerational upward mobility. If the effect of the current system is to externalize the costs of upward mobility on the rest of the society, then that's probably worth paying (to a point). The bigger problem is that government-issued loans suppress market pressure on colleges to operate efficiently.