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Except for cash for clunkers, this has to the most idiotic ideas of the Obama presidency. Capital gains from middle-class savings should never be taxed, especially not for college purposes.

In contrast, if you made college loans taxable income. If students had to pay state and federal taxes on college loans, every year they took them out, they would be much less likely to rely on loans for education purposes. This would free students from education debt.

L.A. school district to give up three grenade launchers, keep 60 M16 rifles

Andy | September 18, 2014

L.A. school district to give up three grenade launchers, keep 60 M16 rifles – San Jose Mercury News.

I think the federal government should provide local school districts with W-76 thermonuclear warheads. The feds have plenty of them left over from the 1970s, and they would only incinerate on average 40 square miles of the school district.

It could be used -- in the most urgent of circumstances only -- against taxpayers in communities that fail to fully understand the importance of paying for a quality education for all children.

One Chart That Makes It Clear College Tuition Is Becoming Unaffordable

Andy | June 18, 2014

One Chart That Makes It Clear College Tuition Is Becoming Unaffordable.

The problem of easy and fast credit. While I never took any college loans, there were many people set on selling me them -- pushing them at every moment possible. If Congress restricted access to college loans and limited how schools could push them, suddenly there would be a major check on the cost of college.