"We've Come to Repossess Your Education"

[steepholm]

I see that Vince Cable is trying to wriggle round the LibDem opposition to student fees by proposing a tax on graduates. But will this apply only to new graduates, or to existing ones too? And if the latter are to be spared, why - given that most of them got their education for free, and are considerably more able to pay than recent graduates with their average £25K in debt? After all, we're presumably still benefiting from our graduate status - worth some £250,000 to each of us over a lifetime, I seem to remember Margaret Hodge claiming.

It won't happen, though.

Comments

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't mind paying. Thousands would.

[sheenaghpugh]

I know graduates who, because they chose to go into ill-paid professions, have never earned more than about £20,000 - is he saying they have to pay an extra tax on that when Alan Sugar can keep all his?

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Extra earning potential = extra income tax-paying potential
Everybody wins.
*headdesk*

[emmaco.livejournal.com]

No mention of past graduates paying so far. So very unfair that the generation with free uni education, cheaper housing and good pensions also skip this tax...