Ya that’s just ridiculous my employer pays for mine but the same thing happened to my aunt who owns a small business. Hers went up 150% and every time I happen to see her she is going off about it (Can’t blame her).
Inflation in the US has been basically flat for two decades.
Everything is not skyrocketing not even close.
So far the biggest gov’t intervention we’ve seen since Social Security and Medicare is Obamacare and it has driven up the cost of insurance dramatically across the country.
I am considering it, was hoping to stay around family but a conplete stranger as a roommate situation is something I don’t think I can do.
A California law that allows for a free first year of tuition at the state’s community colleges made headlines in 2017.
But close to half of students at the 114 California Community Colleges already attended tuition-free before the law was signed. At four-year universities, about 60 percent of students in the 23 campus California State University system, and the same share of in-state undergraduates in the 10-campus University of California system, attend tuition-free as well.
People like the poster are getting taken advantage of.
Better to quit your job and cry poor for free tuition.
No i’m absolutely correct. Let me keep most of my money and i will take care of myself.
That’s where me and the leftists are opposites. They think the government can spend our money more wisely than us and i think quite the opposite.
You’re mentally defeated before you’ve even begun the adult life that waits…
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Ever spent any time over there? Talked to any of them?
Why do they run here when they have an emergency? Here’s a hint: your college professors aren’t shooting straight with you in many cases.
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They don’t know how. Punishing them won’t help. We must teach them the skills they need one way or another.
Make yourself more valuable. Get your boss’s job. Just do it.
As of 2013 the tax rate on an average income in Norway, Sweden and Finland was between 40 and 45%.
When I add the cost of healthcare insurance to my taxes I actually pay close to the same. And I would trust their not for profit healthcare system more than our profit over patents healthcare mess.
I’m hearing more like 65 percent. My tax rate is more like 20 percent.
Oh i wouldn’t trust their rationed care with long delays in treatment any further than i could throw it.
I’ve had excellent care in the US.
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But what are you taxing? Income? Most of the people that make that much money isn’t from income, it’s from their capital. So you can raise the income tax as high as you want and they wouldn’t fall under that category. It would not apply to them.
You have to change your situation. You can’t keep living like that and you can’t rely on a vote to change your life. You can hope all you want, but have some backup plan. You have to be able to move to some place cheaper than that.
Moving to a cheaper state would help a lot.
Here’s what you said:
“Besides getting a very technical degree, one of college’s benefits, is teaching one how to learn, how to figure things out.”
Are you implying that this is the case for every single course one takes? If you are talking about computer courses and certain STEM courses I agree with you. Regarding many of the Liberal Arts courses like history I don’t agree. In my experience I learned much more studying subjects on my own than listening to a 50 minute lecture. Regarding the efficacy of my 8+ years of higher ed (I included HS in that as well), it provided little benefit to my actual job. In other words on a practical level most of that coursework was basically a waste of time. I can’t offer up a single logical argument stating how that taking all the classes I did prepared me to be a better employee or person for that matter.
Last point regarding Bryan Caplan’s work, can you offer up any logical argumentation refuting the major points in his book? Because all you did there was present a typical ad hominem agrument.
Holy talking points batman
Fake news
Just factual points. That you don’t care for them is irrelevant.
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The right fails to understand one key thing. The young people in this country are tired of things like crushing student debt and crushing health care costs. The see a system that is stacked against them.
They now outnumber baby boomers. And their numbers are growing. They will elect political leaders to relieve them of this. And there’s not much the right can do to stop it in the long run.
A lot of cons forget the government money that has been thrown their way. The millennials want their piece now
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I live in NJ, rent can get expensive here too. But rarely do you have to move out of state, just out of the expensive area.
Just don’t buy a house in NJ, property taxes are outrageous throughout the state.
