Nothing is free.... ** -- VTUD 04/28/2021 5:52PM
So a free college proposal is coming - didn't the UK used to do that ? -- bigbadbird 04/28/2021 08:50AM
For community college, right? Can't imagine that working for 4-year -- HokieSignGuy 04/28/2021 12:58PM
Well you get what you pay for ..yep its true ** -- The Hokie Steve 04/28/2021 11:45AM
Community College. ** -- Femoyer Hokie 04/28/2021 11:19AM
The government should get out of the student loan business! -- EDGEMAN 04/28/2021 10:03AM
I still say higher education and health care have the same underlying -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:16AM
That's a symptom, not a cause -- Beerman 04/28/2021 11:35AM
If you want to introduce capitalism into the student loan business... -- EDGEMAN 04/28/2021 10:31AM
Why do you hate Art History? ** -- Brown Water 04/28/2021 11:00AM
Personally, I don't hate art history. I just hate borrowing money to study -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 11:58AM
But if you pay the money back why should it make any diff? -- Brown Water 04/28/2021 12:27PM
In theory, it shouldn't. But at a macro level -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 12:33PM
That's their call though, isn't it. And I'm pretty sure Art is -- Brown Water 04/28/2021 12:43PM
Which is what abolishing federal student loans would do. If you had to get -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:36AM
Healthcare runs deeper. Try to find out what something will cost in advance -- jmanatVT 04/28/2021 10:22AM
It coming though. No Surprise Billing will allow you to get an EOB before -- Brown Water 04/28/2021 10:38AM
Healthcare billing is a disaster, especially hospitals. I really can't -- HokieNoVA 04/28/2021 10:31AM
Higher education is bad, but healthcare takes broken capitalism and -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:30AM
Wait a minute. You are trashing the HEROS -- fordham 04/28/2021 10:59AM
I've seen some interesting stories about states who come to agreements... -- EDGEMAN 04/28/2021 10:27AM
If we wanted to offer taxpayer-provided trade school -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 09:46AM
You don't need taxpayer funding -- Happy Dog 04/28/2021 10:24AM
Trade schools being more open is a great option ** -- bigbadbird 04/28/2021 09:59AM
Welcome to today's partisan issue on The Lounge ** -- Brown Water 04/28/2021 09:29AM
Must be the Fox news hysteria topic du jour. -- Stork 04/28/2021 10:14AM
I guess we could bash cops saving people from knife attacks...a cnn -- Hokiehouse7 04/28/2021 11:20AM
I echo chamber your sentiments ** -- Brown Water 04/28/2021 10:18AM
Better than Facebook! :) ** -- FfxStationHokie 04/28/2021 09:33AM
Can I get my money back? ** -- HokieGator 04/28/2021 09:05AM
Now that I have paid for three of my own ... plus a couple of VT athletes -- vt90 04/28/2021 09:04AM
No kidding -- Happy Dog 04/28/2021 09:08AM
The way education’s being dumbed down, just give diplomas out for free. Why -- Hoakie82 04/28/2021 1:05PM
and loan forgiveness will be coming as well, followed shortly thereafter -- vt90 04/28/2021 09:12AM
The bigger problem is if they forgive loans -- Tombo 04/28/2021 09:22AM
Paradox being the return wasn't worth the investment regardless of who paid -- `lag 04/28/2021 09:30AM
Which means we need to stop doing it as opposed to pay for more to do it. ** -- Hoakie82 04/28/2021 3:22PM
Good questions all! ** -- Happy Dog 04/28/2021 09:13AM
It's called the GI Bill -- Happy Dog 04/28/2021 09:04AM
Honestly, if they just implemented the student loan forgiveness as the law -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 09:54AM
As someone with a student loan bill from graduate school, my only beef -- ElbertoHokie 04/28/2021 10:36AM
There is a pretty compelling case that student loan debt is a significant -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:47AM
I'd like to see the degrees of these 20-30 somethings struggling to pay -- hokiehunter07 04/28/2021 2:39PM
Agree, it shouldn't be something for nothing -- Happy Dog 04/28/2021 09:57AM
If you have the smarts and the drive to go to college, I hate that money -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:10AM
College costs have indeed gone insane -- Happy Dog 04/28/2021 10:20AM
Nothing is truly free...it's just a matter of who is actually paying. ** -- vthokieq 04/28/2021 08:54AM
Yep. Zero tuition isn't going to pay for the faculty/staff at a university -- reestuart 04/28/2021 09:16AM
If college tuition either becomes completely taxpayer funded -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:22AM
Yep. If it's free, they'll have to cut faculty like crazy and become a -- reestuart 04/28/2021 11:13AM
Nope, it will have the exact opposite effect -- EDGEMAN 04/28/2021 10:33AM
Yep. Also scam colleges and diploma mills will spring up out of nowhere -- HokieNoVA 04/28/2021 11:31AM
That's kind of what's happening now. Colleges & Universities know how -- reestuart 04/28/2021 11:19AM
I disagree, at least under the premise -- Tafkam Hokie 04/28/2021 10:41AM
I'm basing it on what happened to the cost of college education once... -- EDGEMAN 04/28/2021 10:45AM
If that happens, the schools will get killed with budget cuts. Those -- reestuart 04/28/2021 11:22AM
Agree- and there will be wage caps i'm sure - prob a redo of what's already -- bigbadbird 04/28/2021 08:56AM
So if I retire early, we don’t have to pay for college? ** -- WestyHokie 04/28/2021 09:03AM
Yeah- if the proposal came out it would sure make it an incentive for -- bigbadbird 04/28/2021 09:25AM