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what mr mcdonnnn said about education is funny. in other countries (denmark) not only do citizens get zero cost tuition (free, i dont want to use that bc of tax arguments blah blah blah)
BUT they also give 'student wages' i.e. $500/month if your in school full time to compensate for the opportunity cost of doing so
GET THIS... its $1000/month if you dont live with your parents.
the end result... kids move out of the house when theyre 18 and live much cooler lives than we do here
PROBLEMS... denmark is socialist, cost of living is high, taxes are high (60% tax rate isnt unusual) and its a country of 7 million
all the sociological inequality issues in the u.s. could be significantly diffused if such policy was enacted. even if you paid every full time college student like a couple hundred bucks a month or something it would be an incentive for lower income level people to stay in school longer,
countries like denmark dont have ginormous federal budgets spending billions on every damn thing imaginable though, paying the full bill for wars abroad that benefit freeloading european countries and such
uhhh lets just suppose theres 10 million college age americans at any given time.. 1000/month.. that'd cost 10,000,000,000 ten billion a month haha 120 billion a year.. thats chicken shit compared to the current federal budget deficit....
im not advocating denmarks system, but its funny to think about.. hahah especially with americas youth, what better way to jump start our short-term investment dependant economy... by giving kids money for rimz Wiis and weed
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Originally Posted by surreybc
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