Interesting idea. We wouldn't be in this position if our liberal politicians didn't insist that everyone has a right to go to college, regardless if they're intellectually or emotionally qualified. But I can understand why liberals want to get as many people in their brainwashing factories as possible. Colleges condition the student to support the Democrats who have bribed them with unaffordable promises for years, and now they expect to confiscate the money from the uninvolved American worker. No thanks. MAGA
But who made the unaffordable promise.
The real problem is most good paying jobs REQUIRE a bachelor's degree. It's a simple matter of supply and demand, really. More people need Bachelor degrees - but the number of seats in universities hasn't increased. Demand goes up, supply stays the same, prices increase.
I worked in purchasing for many years. Most purchasing jobs require a bachelor's degree. Why? No idea. The skills you need to be good at purchasing really can't be learned at college. (My own career path was through the Army in logistics and then moving to purchasing in the civilian world.)
So in 2008, when the recession hit and they fired the buyers in my department, I was able to land a new gig in about four weeks, but the lady who had a lot more experience than I did but no degree, wasn't able to land a new gig for more than a year.
To put it in perspective. When I graduated from UIC In 1985, tuition was about $1500 a year. That would be about $4751 in today's Dollars. In my case, the Army National Guard picked up most of my tuition, but I could still pay that working minimum wage jobs working 20 hours a week.
By comparison- UIC today costs $13,574 for in state tuition. About three times what it cost then. Working a full time minimum wage job in Illinois ($8.25 an hour) would net you $17,160. Which means you would have less than $4000 to pay for food, housing, books, transportation, clothing and so on.
Now, why has pricing gone up? Part of the reason as I said was demand. part of the reason was that back in the day, most of those operating costs for state universities were picked up by the state. The State cuts funding, they have to go to the students. The students don't have the funding, they have to go to the banks.
Then when Trump ***** up the economy, you find that they can't pay these loans back. Funny how that works.