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You should just come out and say that you’re against subsidizing the wrong people. But maybe you’re a libertarian and think government should’t subsidize any of
by guntars 4y ago
You should just come out and say that you’re against subsidizing the wrong people. But maybe you’re a libertarian and think government should’t subsidize any of the thousand other things it does, like parents and farmers. I would have called myself a libertarian too some time ago, but now I see it as just youthful naivety.
- remarkEon 4y ago>You should just come out and say that you’re against subsidizing the wrong people. The "wrong people" that OP is against subsidizing is the fraudulent higher education business in the United States. Government should subsidize some things, where markets fail (markets are just a tool, after all), but in this case we're going to be giving these universities and institutions a green light to do whatever the hell they want with tuition costs. They'll raise them again, for no real reason, because why the hell wouldn't they? Uncle Sam will pay for it. Perhaps we should just nationalize the endowments instead.