The kids are taking to the streets and they’re blaming the politicians in the state capital for not sending enough money to their school. Daniel Bennett points out very succinctly that they’re aiming in the wrong direction. It’s just like that famous horror movie: the creepy phone calls are coming from inside the house.
It’s the professors who would rather go to conferences and the administrators who would rather hold meetings to draft policy. They’re the source of your ballooning bill.
But the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world and the kids are in a terrible feedback loop. The kids can’t think for themselves because they’re not supposed to think for themselves. They’re supposed to think the way the professors tell them to think and their professors are in the business of selling education. So of course they see the problem is in Sacramento, Albany, Springfield, etc. It’s like trusting your plumber to draw up the specs for your new house. Of course you’re going to need a half bath next to every room just in case you’ve got to go. It’s the politicians fault for not giving you enough of a subsidy for adding new half baths to your house.
There are two bloated entitlements at war here. The geezers think they’re supposed to get endless pampering from the doctors and the young punks think they’re supposed to get endless pampering from the universities. Society can’t afford either of them, but they’re still going after your pocket book. The only thing that keeps them from raising the tax rate to 110% is that they realize the few people left working will just quit and there will be no revenue.
Alas, the protesters need to realize that it’s not prudent to fund education by taxes when most people get a college education. Demanding more funding for the schools is exactly the same as demanding higher taxes when you graduate. Given that more and more people can’t pay off their college loans, why should we expect that we’ll be able to pay off the loans when we relabel them “taxes” and run them through the tax offices instead of the loan offices?
That’s why Bennett is right. The real problem is the administrations and the fancy campuses.
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