What is the moral basis for any process of means testing to include one’s blood relatives? There surely cannot be one. Like so many policy decisions, it is si

What is the moral basis for any process of means testing to include one’s blood relatives? There surely cannot be one. Like so many policy decisions, it is simply another way for those in power to shirk the responsibility of actually collecting enough taxes to pay for the things we need. To do so would mean increasing income tax, a concept completely anathema to electioneering. For University in particular — a part of one’s life that should involve physical and emotional separation from the nest — it is infantilizing and disingenuous to treat undergraduates as legal adults on the one hand, and daddy’s-girls (with access to daddy’s wallet) on the other. This is how it felt, for me.