Say the money for college could only be paid from W-4 wages. That youngsters could start working as soon as five or six and be taxed at 95%. The money would be held in a “lockbox” for their educational needs 12 years in the future. At that time their juvenile and adolescent wages could be accessed in addition to any work they were doing in the time they were not going to school.
After two years of college they would be eligible for scholarships, grants and other honorarium to advance their scholastic careers.
The nature of protests on college campuses would change. If the students were paying their own way, they would have less time to advocate the agenda of others and would be more focused on getting the greatest benefit from their exposure to academia.
Much the same way students are very proud, and righteous about their body art and piercings, when forced to use their own money to pay for education their attention to, and acceptance of non-scholastic distractions would be muted.
The obvious long-range benefits of indoctrinating adolescents and young adults to the concept of paying for things, and more importantly only buying things of high value would bring about significant changes.
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