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COMMENTARY | As if taking a cue from Rick Santorum, the Congressional Republicans have decided to make it much more expensive for American families to turn their children into snobs. The interest families will pay for exposing students to "some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them" will double if House Republicans have their way. With the 2007 passage of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act the interest rates for subsidized Stafford Loans, the primary federal loan program for middle class families, Congress gradually stepped interest rates down to 3.4 percent for the 2011-12 academic year. According to the U.S. Department of Education, approximately 10,000,000 students participated in the program this year, borrowing up to $5,500 at the subsidized rate. Unless Congress extends the subsidy program these loans will jump to an interest rate of 6.8 percent for the 2012-13 school year. If Congress does nothing, the typical Stafford borrower would see a $2,800 increase in interest over a 10-year loan. Students who borrow the maximum $23,000 through the program will see their interest cost rise by $5,000 over 10 years and $11,000 over 20 years. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recently noted that total student loan debt has surpassed total credit card debt and currently tops the trillion dollar mark. Proposed cuts in Pell grants, adopted in the recently passed Ryan budget plan, will serve to make students even more dependent on loans for the financing of education. The primary concern on the part of the House GOP is really how fast the loans will be repaid and how soon that money could be used toward deficit reduction plans. Some have speculated that pushing the default rate up would actually allow for quicker deficit reduction since the government would be repaid quicker through the seizure of assets rather than through a typical 10 year payment plan. Due to Republican bankruptcy reform passed in 2005, student loans are no longer eligible to be included in bankruptcy. The government can now garnish wages and place liens on property to collect these loans. In addition, Republicans are arguing that because of Pell Grants and the Stafford program universities have no incentive to control costs. It would seem that the intention of the congressional GOP is to reduce the demand for higher education by making it more expensive for the middle class and by discouraging those from low income families from even applying. What effect lowering demand for higher education in this way would have on tuition has not been quantified. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), chair of the Higher Education Subcommittee, has identified over regulation as a culprit in the 30-year trend of tuitions rising at at least twice the rate of inflation. She has recently introduced H.R. 2117, the Protecting Academic Freedom in Higher Education Act, in order to reduce federal regulation on universities. The bill would repeal the Department of Educations definition of a credit hour and grant states more flexibility in defining what constitutes a college or university. Since the DOE regulations were introduced in 2010 it is not clear how much these regulations are adding to tuition bills. The potential impact of removing these regulations is unlikely to reduce the rise in tuition anywhere near as much as depressing demand would. It is clear that the GOP plan for simultaneously reducing the deficit and lowering the cost of college tuition is to make it much more expensive for the middle class and almost impossible for the poorest citizens to get a college education. The additional benefit would be that, as Republicans see it, in the words of Rick Santorum, it would deny President Obama the chance to "remake you in his image." |
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