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steve  ·  4230 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are college costs? | MattBruenig | Politics

    Conflating these various things makes arguments totally incomprehensible.

Excellent point. Some one has to pay. The students can bear the full brunt of the cost of education, or taxpayers can bear a distributed brunt of the cost. And as b_b points out, more kids in college might just have something to do with incarceration rates.... the sociologist in me wants to find some studies that could back up that hypothesis... but I don't think it's too much of a stretch to see some correlation.