American Opportunity Tax Credit (College Credit) is a ****ing joke in 2024

Something tells me the incoming administration will get on that...never.

 

Like healthcare, we need to figure out (root causes first...then) how to reduce avg college costs at the org level without the government dumping more money into subsidizing individuals. China is no longer sending waves of students looking to overpay for a piece of paper written in English. I guess that's one thing native students and their parents can cheer about or something.

Pension and admin costs are one aspect. Having a solid majority of professors and teaching assistants feeling the squeeze while this is happening screams sustainability issues.

 

The credit doesn't apply to living expenses which is the majority of that cost.

 

Join the military and utilize the GI Bill like I did.
Learn a trade while in, in case college is not your cup of tea.

Problem solved.

Enough with the free shite.

 

I agree. Let the poor people join the military and go create profit for the military industrial complex while killing brown and black people and taking the other countries wealth & natural resources the world over for the last several decades.


While letting the disproportionate income inequality that continues to exacerbate and the people that perpetuate it never letting their children join the military. Those individuals can always pay for college. Did you hear recently that Ivy League school are about to be sued because they are letting students not qualified but because their families have made large donations?

Change nothing.

 

It does as a % of cost. Granted I live in a state where tuition is paid for if you are at least a B student.

 

Everything is a shell game where those at the absolute top of the food chain financially try to placate everyone beneath them by playing an elaborate game of bait and switch where the pie for everyone outside the very wealthy shrinks while the ultra wealthy increase profits…. Until more is taken from the top, nothing will change.

With the soon to be President being a billionaire- and his sidekick being the wealthiest man in the world .. and other billionaires involved, nothing will change for the better in the near future.

 

If I had to do it all over and know what I know now, I would have gone to a trade school and become an electrician or a plumber. My 4 years in College were awesome but took me 10 years to pay them off and I don't feel real job security. In hindsight, I would have gone the trade route and worked to open my own company...................but I toil for "the man"

 

This coming from the guy who once said he wouldn’t vote for Bernie in the general against Trump is amazin

This reads like a quote from the B-dog himself

 

But if they did, you would disagree

 

Those raised on silver spoons will now be raising their kids on platinum diamond covered spoons. Not much will ever change for the working class or the poor I'm afraid, especially now as the gap widens more and more and the richest of the rich pour their money into a leader who will serve their greed most. Some are lucky, and are gifted with an athletic ability to make millions, win a lotto, or just get real lucky as an entrepreneur, entertainer, or musician, but that's not the reality of most, no matter how hard they try to get ahead or get by.

 

What about helping a poor American kid get a PhD in gender studies and becoming a seasoned pro Hamas protester lol. (I'm glad you specified STEM).

America first!

 

You think it's only luck?

 

Both industries have a select group at the top skimming billions of dollars to fund their wealth creation and luxurious lifestyle desires and these people are not providing any value to these systems either. So a bunch of people at the top who aren't contributing to society ("taking on risk" is a propaganda line) skimming billions is a large brunt of these inflated costs.

Brian Thompson a dude with a business admin degree, with no knowledge on medicine or actuary science being the ceo of a health insurance company exemplifies the uselessness to society they provide. Brian Thompson's reason for existing as a health insurance ceo is pure class solidarity reasons. The shareholders make sure to chose individuals that have solidarity with their interests for wealth generation and will make the immoral "hard' decisions that ruin people's lives and be the fall guy for those decisions when society pushes back. That is the purpose of individuals like Brian Thompson.