Originally Posted by
brunt
I'll play the wet blanket here - I see where they are coming from.
The tax credits were put in place under the working assumption that the student was paying the tuition. The logic follows then if the government (taxpayers really) pays the tuition, rather than the student, then why should the student still get the tax credits.
I am of mixed feelings here. I paid my own way through 11 years and three degrees of post secondary education (zero government assistance through a very odd, and I though unfair, set of circumstances), and I had a financially rough time of it. So from this side, I really would have appreciated the assistance.
But then again, having paid my own way, absolutely everything about my degrees was researched to the nth degree by me before I put down a single penny. Most of my university schoolmates had their parents footing the bill, and did not take their studies terribly seriously. Many of my high school schoolmates took courses that did not provide for good job opportunities. It is far easier to waste money when it is not your own.
So here I sit, knowing full well how difficult it was for me to pay my own way through, but also realizing how this focused my study efforts, forced me to take this whole education thing extremely seriously, and also provided me with an A+ education in budgeting, income estimating, expense minimization and planning, for if I had not learned all that, there is no way I could have graduated.