Quote Originally Posted by JITB
and im gonna say what everyone else has told you. not everyone can afford to not work, and go to school, and get taken care of. It dont work like that for everyone.
How do you expect anyone to pay for any kind of education, when they can barely feed themselves. There are people that would do 1 million hours of community service to go to school.
There are scholarships/degrees that require alot of Community Service, so to a College student community service is not a big deal. Community service is a all positive thing, nothing bad comes out of it. I mean you have 365 days to serve 50-100hours of comunity service you can do a few hours a week, and still get it done. You spend more than 50 hours on IA, but you wont get out and do some community service for your community.
And as I have said I agree with you BUT something like what the OP posted shouldn't be MANDATED whether or not you claim the tax credit.

And I'm sorry I still don't agree with the the federal government using tax dollars to fund private citizens education.The only instance I really agree with it in is in the case of the G.I. Bill, military, peace corps service etc.

This is why Obama's plan doesn't make any sense to me. The only thing he is really changing is that there will be more ways to get the money but according to him it's only $4k. And he hasn't said whether that would be for a semester or for a year. Depending on where you go $4K ain't shit. Especially over a year. Hell I just took a look at my account and It's $4K a year just to go to Gordon and they don't offer all that much. And that's before books, gas, etc.

I had a buddy last year that served in the marines got out and went to college all paid for by the marines and he got a lot more than $4k. He got a full ride and then some. If it was me instead of claiming the tax credit I'd go ahead and serve in the military and get the full benefit and not have to worry about any of it.

There are more ways of getting your higher education funded then by getting a tax credit from the federal government.There are countless of billions of dollars out there in scholarships, a lot of my friends didn't have the money to go to college so what did they do? Join the service, apply for scholarships etc. Like I said Obama's plan in this respect doesn't really change anything. It just makes less available but more ways to get at it. Make sense?