If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students.
Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.
When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
Voters care only that student loans remain freely available and that they cost taxpayers as little as possible.
College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
We can't afford not to fully fund education.
By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.
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