Nobody needs to be paying tuition as a PhD student. It's a farce.
Taxing graduate tuition waivers
Adrian Thompson
Henry Jones
>he fell for the PhD meme
>he took out school loans
Cameron Williams
Way to out yourself as not knowing anything about PhDs.
Caleb Jackson
Why, so we can convert the US to a socialist nation? The demographics are nowhere near homogenous enough to even think about such a thing. The only reason Scandinavian countries (the only countries I can assume you're referring to where low cost or free uni is the norm) has low costs for university is due to obscenely high tax rates and a relatively homogenous society. US has a low tax rate and a heterogeneous society, neither of which are conducive to subsidizing college for everyone who wants to attend.
Ryder Parker
My undergraduate scholarship was taxable income worth close to $50,000 a year and I paid a few thousand in taxes on it every year.
Luke Walker
Chinese research results in Chinese patents that western companies will have to pay for to license. Huawei and ZTE are not among the top 10 PCT patent application filers.
Useless? I don't think so.
Jose Flores
this
Camden Carter
>Why waste public money on young people sitting around not being productive for 18+ years? The answer: because education is an investment in the future.
What the fuck am I reading?
Charles Cooper
It's justified solely by your butthurt post. And no one envies the cuck life of a grad student that goes without saying.
Austin Cox
>The only reason Scandinavian countries (the only countries I can assume you're referring to where low cost or free uni is the norm) has low costs for university is due to obscenely high tax rates
I think their tax rates are pretty comparable to, say, California.
>and a relatively homogenous society.
Nonsense. There are many societal problems that increase or decrease with societal homogeneity, but subsidized education is not one of them.
The reason the Scandinavian countries can subsidize their education is that, by virtue of having relatively limited government corruption, their education is *cheap*, making systems that give it away quite feasible. The reason it could not easily work in the US is that the level of government is so high that (among many other things) college costs have gone through the roof.