Author: Matt Bruenig

As is obvious from my last week of blog posts, the debate over Oregon’s potential implementation of a Pay It Forward (PIF) scheme is on my mind. Notably, I can’t understand why the anti-PIF education wonks are having so many problems generating good arguments against it. Then it struck me: PIF is a plan inclusive… Continue reading The plan inclusive counterplan giving education wonks so much trouble

To review, Oregon has proposed implementing Pay It Forward (PIF), a higher education financing plan in which the state directly subsidizes all public college tuition (or college costs if you’d like). To fund the subsidies, people that attend college will pay an income tax after they graduate (e.g. 3% of their income for 24 years).… Continue reading Arguing about arguing about Pay It Forward

I don’t care about students as a class of people. Students qua students are not compelling subjects to focus any particular concern towards. In fact, among the list of identities the left tends to talk about, students uniquely stand out. Consider this partial list: women, people of color, poor people, disabled people, LGBT people, and… Continue reading The best way to fund higher education for students

I support making college free at the point of delivery and funding that by imposing an income tax on those that attend college. A lot of people don’t like doing that. I think they have pretty bad arguments for opposing it. I address some of those arguments, as detailed by Jordan Weissman in The Atlantic,… Continue reading Short responses to arguments regarding income-based repayment