Why are so many college students far-left liberals or socialists?

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Also, you dodged the question again. 32k, 64k -> either way, did you pay it off?

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How would he know? This is *exactly* what I've been asking you: at what point is the obligation fufilled?

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Did his net, total taxes paid by age 23, assuming ALL of it went to funding his education and ONLY his education, equal or exceed 32,000 (or 64,000, or whatever other figure he wanted to stipulate) dollars?

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Probably not. But the net, total payments to the car dealer by the time I drove off the lot didn't equal $30,000, either.

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PS: You dodged the question.

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If he received 32,000 worth of tuition and his TOTAL taxes paid are less than 32,000, he can be absolutely sure he did not pay off his debt, unless there has been significant deflation.

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Am I missing something here? Don't parents often pay for (some or all of) their offspring's college bills? Therefore, shouldn't the question be, have the parents' taxes exceeded the cost of the student's college subsidy? In most cases this answer would be Yes.

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Actually in most cases the answer has to be no, since all folks' taxes are pooled and universities and colleges are paid for from the pool. For every kid going to college, there's something like 4 sets of parents paying the bills, not just his own.

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I don't get how this relates to the question at hand: whether you should examine the student's tax payments or the parents'.

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If the student claims to be an ACist, you should examine his tax payments to see whether or not he is accepting a subsidy. If he thinks taxes are wrong except when levied against his parents - an interesting position, and one I'd be inclined to explore with him - examine their taxes as well by all means. Neither examination will change the fact that for every person who's gone to college, about 5 people's taxes have paid for it.