I'd love to hear comments and replies rather than simply seeing your downvotes or your upvotes.
I was torn between downvoting, commenting and ignoring you, and I clicked before I thought it through.
Giving money directly to the schools is not even wrong. Costs are totally out of control as it is. But you are correct that we have a great university system, so I figure you're at least hitting on something and are best left to your own devices.
Sorry for the downvote. No conspiracy was afoot.
To clarify: I completely agree costs are out of control. I just don't agree the solution is simply to defund it.
The system isn't perfect (and one of many issues is unis compromising difficulty/quality for full fee paying overseas students), but I'm pretty happy with it and paid off my debt easily enough.
I assume some other countries do a better job again.
My alternative plan is much closer to what you're saying than what the video's plan was. You don't actually seem to disagree with me at all. I'm curious where you got the impression you did.
I observe that in my state, which historically has been a state with quite a high level of funding for higher education. And I observe that nationally there seem to be several states well known for lavish funding of higher education that are in severe economic downturns right now. In light of this, I'm wondering how an advocate of continued high levels of taxpayer funding for higher education makes the case that that is really beneficial for the overall economy of a jurisdiction. Could it be that there is less "investment" with dependable return in such taxpayer funding than people whose incomes derive from higher education claim?
The other point you're making is that states with strong educational investments are hurting worse right now. I think you might find that those states are hurting worse because the difference between the amazing acceleration of everything they felt when the economy was good is just so out of step with the stagnant environment that comes about when the economy is bad that they simply had more to lose.
If you're referring to California, then that's a situation that has a lot of factors, many to do with the fact that the California Constitution is simply an document which is downright insane and progressively continuing to get more insane as voters keep lobbing stuff into it.