Author: Matt Bruenig

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

New post at Policy Shop. Excerpt: Like so much literature on the topic, the book sadly focuses exclusively on how to mop up a tiny bit of the disaster that is caused by enormous socioeconomic inequality. We have some of our country’s greatest minds and researchers trying to figure out how to slightly ameliorate the… Continue reading Policy Shop: The Distraction of Socioeconomic Diversity and Mop-Up-The-Disaster Policy