Student Loan Debt?

[milkman636]

……As to the police and fire bond issues the money does go to police and fire but what they don't say is the same dollar amount will be removed for other non police/fire use....

I’ve seen that too. The increased tax rate goes to fund the police/fire and then a chunk of the previous general fund allocation is reappropriated for other purposes that weren’t on the ballot.

Local politicians are training for a bigger stage and need to get their practice.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Our septic system was $10k all in. Good soil. Three bedrooms and two baths.

 

[kenmbz]

Our septic system was $10k all in. Good soil. Three bedrooms and two baths.

I think my neighbors spent 40K on theirs 4 years ago, labor is high around here.
They did a crappy job on seeding in, so we went over and fixed it before it turned to a mud mound.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

I think my neighbors spent 40K on theirs 4 years ago, labor is high around here.
They did a crappy job on seeding in, so we went over and fixed it before it turned to a mud mound.

We had to let the drain field settle for a year. I had a guy till it and level it afterward...I seeded and covered in straw. Came in really nice.

 

[Torvy]

I think my neighbors spent 40K on theirs 4 years ago, labor is high around here.
They did a crappy job on seeding in, so we went over and fixed it before it turned to a mud mound.

I see what you did there...crappy job on septic!

 

[paulsharvey]

Lots of students in Austria and some just keep studying well into their 20's with stipends and paid tuition along with public transit passes

That's an interesting perspective, how it's done in other countries. I know in some, college is 100% state funded; BUT only available to students to do well enough on a state exam (or of coarse who have political connections); don't know how wide spread this is globally. You do still see a very large number of connected non-US people sending their kids to US colleges.

My worry with a free model (I know free is the wrong word; more like non-user paid); is, it encourages people to kinda hang out in college. The real goal of college should always be to get the heck out of college and use that education to make money. As someone above mentioned; the student needs "skin in the game".

I do work around some people who get free college. based on employee programs; and 85% don't use it; maybe 5% use it as intended to improve their career; and about 10% seem to just stay taking classes unrelated to any profession, just cause they enjoy college....

I don't 100% disagree with government subsidizing Specific, Limited, and proven in critical demand, degrees; but my fear would be; that would be used/abused by politicians, and it would turn from maybe we Need petro-chemical engineers critically; but congress says we subsidize gender studies and Indian cultural studies...

 

[Hay Dude]

I see what you did there...crappy job on septic!

That would piss me off.
See what I did there?

 

[tulenutn2o]

Neighbor on 6 acres Thurston County WA had 75k all in to replace a very old septic for the 1,000 square feet cabin... but being a mound system it also requires monitoring contract...

I think I would put up a poop shanty and buy a bag of lime….

 

[goeduck]

Our septic system was $10k all in. Good soil. Three bedrooms and two baths.

Tripple that here. County forced 3 tanks, pumped and aerated. Soils not an issue. They enforced it because they can.

 

[riptides]

Tripple that here. County forced 3 tanks, pumped and aerated. Soils not an issue. They enforced it because they can.

5x that here. Just had one put in about two years ago. It was a bureaucratic nightmare. Architects, Consultants, Designers, Builder....County People.....

Horrible, took way too long. Really no help. Without it, they condemn the property.