Mainers Give Grads Debt Relief

Their state's economy at a crossroads, politicians embrace Opportunity Maine, which eases the financial burden of going to college

By Adam Doster

Andrew Bossie was tired of bad ballot referendums. After spending the fall of 2005 with Maine student activists and the League of Young Voters fighting a referendum that would have gutted an anti-discrimination bill written to protect Maine's gay population, he decided to go on the [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

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    Am I glad I don’t live in Maine, (although I live in an equally idiotic state). Why should I be forced to subsidize someone else’s education? If you would like to attract businesses to the state, why not lower taxes?

    United States Posted by Rotten on Jul 16, 2007 at 7:18 PM

    Do you object to paying for the education of K-12 children? Just curious.

    One might make the argument that educating the workforce to their natural capacity would be good for the economy.

    United States Posted by wolf on Jul 18, 2007 at 10:07 AM

    I don’t mind paying for k-12 education because people payed for mine, but I don’t think that I should be forced to pay for someone’s post secondary education. If we want to improve education, let’s not subsidize people’s higher education, let’s make the k-12 education better.

    United States Posted by Rotten on Jul 18, 2007 at 11:39 AM

    its nice to pay k-12 but i have a query .will it be helpful?or people will really taake it as opportunity or will missuse it?
    Debt Relief

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