I want to clarify and re-issue the challenge of my prior post. Imagine we have free higher education funded by a 3% income tax imposed upon everyone. This is apparently acceptable to the titans of free higher education on the internet. That is, higher education funded this way would qualify as sufficiently left-wing and decommodified… Continue reading At this point, higher education debate is apparently about tax policy
Tell me where the injustice creeps in
Time Zero Right now, the universities in my state are funded by tuition payments. Time One I want to fully fund all of the universities in my state from tax revenue. I want it to be that no student will pay any tuition. I figure out that imposing a 3% income surcharge tax on the… Continue reading Tell me where the injustice creeps in
Policy Shop: Oregon Is Doing Free Higher Education the Right Way
New post at Policy Shop. Excerpt: So Oregon is basically toying with implementing a universal income-based repayment (IBR) scheme, something I have been (probably excessively) advocating on behalf of for over a year. The idea is simple: make college free at the point of delivery, but impose what amounts to an income surcharge tax on… Continue reading Policy Shop: Oregon Is Doing Free Higher Education the Right Way
Policy Shop: Making Equality Local
New post at Policy Shop. Excerpt: In America Beyond Capitalism (2005) and What Then Must We Do? (2013), Alperovitz details a strategy for moving beyond our present slate of economic institutions by democratizing wealth at the local level. Or to put it more bluntly: Alperovitz’s strategy is to shift the ownership of productive assets, bit… Continue reading Policy Shop: Making Equality Local
Socialize Big Pharma Research
I ran across this post at Jacobin called “Socialize Big Pharma.” The basic argument is simple. We need more antibiotic drugs, and pharmaceutical companies aren’t trying to produce them. Therefore we need to eliminate the private pharmaceutical sector altogether, putting a socialized system in its place. I found the post odd for a number of… Continue reading Socialize Big Pharma Research