We oppose Vince Cable's 'Tax on Aspiration'

Vince Cable's announcement that he will introduce a new 'Graduate Tax' is simply not acceptable.

It is an atrocious example of how ridiculous successive governments' approaches have been to the issue of HE funding.

Students shuld have an expectation that they will pay a contribution towards the cost of their education through tuition fees. After all, they do benefit from the distinction of having a degree. And, as an educated person one hopes, students weigh up the pros and cons of taking a degree course - higher earnings, experiences, a new way of life - with the knowledge that they will incur the cost of this service. This is sensible, and it is fair.  

A graduate tax is simply ridiculous.

The value of your course will not be known until you start paying back taxation upon a job, which may then mean the bill is grossly more expensive than what you had anticipated when you started, and what also is probably going to be worse value for money.  

We need to avoid this new aspiration tax at all costs. Either cut the number of students going to university and improve vocation education; increase the level of tuition fees to fill the void; or have a mixture of both.    

Matthew Sinclair of the Taxpayers' Alliance has an excellent article on it at: http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/research/2010/07/no-to-the-graduate-tax.html   

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