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To: Mark Adams who wrote (3175)	10/18/2001 10:51:02 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

If not for govt financial aid to help finance post secondary education at a public university, I'm sure I would not have paid as much in taxes as I have. Yup, I got lots of financial aid to go to college as well. I used to make this argument, that the money that was spent on me was an investment on the part of the government because like you I've paid back in spades. Aside from that argument, recently I've noticed that two things that continually run well ahead of inflation are higher education and medical costs which is bringing them further and further out of reach for many more people. One could argue that a great deal of that running ahead of inflation has to do with the fact that they are subsidized by the government. So these programs that are designed to do what is essentially a "good" thing (ie. providing education and medical care for the needy) also sets up a situation where the cost continually rises and makes them less affordable for people further up the ladder.