Socialism is metastasizing like a cancer throughout our country.Though collectivism will inevitably fail, because it always does, it is already causing significant damage to our nation’s political and social fabric.
It must be stopped.It is not enough to defeat Socialism at the ballot box.The factories producing this infection — the far-left faculties of our colleges and universities — must be starved of taxpayer money.
Thankfully, the Trump White House has taken measures to start that process.As of July 1, the Department of Education implemented new limits on student loans.Instead of letting young people pile up unlimited amounts of debt in pursuit of a degree of questionable value, the government has now capped what students and their parents can borrow to finance (primarily) graduate programs.FOX NEWS POLL: FAITH IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE US IS COLLAPSINGWhy does this matter? Because the young people who have rallied to the TikTok "vibe" campaigns of politicians like New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani are disproportionately white liberals with college and graduate degrees who are up to their eyeballs in student debt.
Many are angry that their advanced degree in poetry or social work hasn’t paid off; they can’t afford to repay their student loans, start a family or buy a house.They feel cheated, they’re angry, and they want to tax the "wealthy" to underwrite their poor choices.We can sympathize with them.
Our government has handed out an unending torrent of money to finance college education for decades, driving up the cost of schooling and total student debt, which now stands at $1.9 trillion, up from $520 billion in 2006.Just like too much money spewed by the Biden administration into the Covid-constrained economy sparked decades-high inflation, too much money pouring into our higher ed institutions over the past fifty years has driven college costs through the roof.According to research from the Education Data Initiative, "The average annual cost o...