graduate tax

The prospect of life-long higher-tax status will act as a deterrent to many weaker students who doubt their abilities to make a success of a university degree, or those from poorer backgrounds with no family tradition of higher education. Would the many students who fail to complete their degrees be subject to the graduate tax?
 
The graduate tax could create several perverse incentives. For example, graduates of UK universities would have an incentive to move away from the UK after graduation to countries where it would be difficult or impossible to collect the graduate tax. The Russell group of universities claims that this could "deprive the UK of vital skills and knowledge". Further perverse incentives may be present, depending on the details of how the scheme is implemented. If the tax is levied only upon students who graduate, then some students would have an incentive not to graduate after having completed their courses of study. If the tax is levied only upon students who graduate from UK institutions, then some students would have an incentive to transfer from UK universities to foreign institutions for their final year(s) of study.
 
This is ridiculously unfair. we all get the same education, which is a good or service, so why would some have to pay more than others. Its the equivalent of changing VAT so that richer people have to pay more for the same goods as poorer people.

The reasoning is also as flawed. Lets say two people do the same degree. One works harder than the other and therefore gets a better job. under the new grad tax proposal, the one that worked harder then has to pay more for the same education. Its a tax on cognitive ability and work ethic. Now tell me, how is that fair?

This may be extreme but there is more than a hint of communism here, that everyone should be equal no matter how much more effort some people put in than others
 
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