For tuition, I’d also be okay with funding it as an investment. Prior to the late 1970s, tuition at the UC system was nominal – where the “part time summer job

For tuition, I’d also be okay with funding it as an investment. Prior to the late 1970s, tuition at the UC system was nominal – where the “part time summer job paid for college” beliefs came from – and it worked out well for California having so many graduates paying taxes for decades to come. The idea that education should be paid by the student is just tragically shortsighted (and dovetailed with nastier things: a lot of the late-70s “taxpayer revolt” stuff was also older white people deciding they didn’t want to pay for things their own kids no longer needed because the current beneficiaries didn’t look like them).