Quote Originally Posted by Gman View Post
Wouldn't that be something. Paying tons of money to pay for college early in your career is explained away due to an anticipation of higher wages. Knowing the time value of money, how much value would that money have if it went into a retirement account rather than pay for college?
Truth.

And how much better is it to pay off that finite fixed debt tied to your own economic mobility rather than have an increasing tax burden for life that you can't control?

Some of these people have staggering debt, true. But look at gross incomes and do the math on tax increases over the lifetime of production. Taxes are biggest risk to economic security, they are effectively limitless (morally and legally). The banks will eventually cut you off and bankruptcy can offer some relief.

Education is a complete failure.