The Education Department’s one child policy

America’s financial aid framework wouldn’t look much different if it were crafted by the late Paul Ehrlich, the false prophet who warned of overpopulation and mass starvation. Ehrlich wanted the tax code to discourage large families: the dependent exemption should apply only to the first two children, and a luxury tax should be levied on all cribs and diapers. Recommended Stories Trump’s very public inner dialogue on Iran On This Day: The Committee of Five is born. Nothing will ever be the same Gordon Wood and the historians who told the real story of the founders The federal student loan program seems to have been created in the same spirit.Advertisement Federal subsidies have driven up the cost of college, and those subsidies are slanted in favor of having only one child — or at most…

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