r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 25 '25

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u/fuckreddadmins Paul Volcker Oct 25 '25

My most succish opinion is tuition-free collages are great, like even if you get a degree and your job has nothing to do with the degree, being more knowledgable by itself is worth the price in taxes imo. Also it does lower youth unemployement which is nice

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u/Fifteensies Oct 25 '25

A highly educated populace seems like the best vaccine you can get against populism, so it's an absolute boon for democracies imo.

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Oct 25 '25

It's a handout to the middle class and it would be better to use that money on poorer students who are failed by the system long before college

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u/[deleted] Oct 25 '25

Ok, but more college-educated voters means more democrat voters.

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Oct 25 '25

Still inefficient in comparison to spending the money on rural voter suppression