Would agree that withholding education/workforce training is a form of violence….Canada BTW which is 10th in world in math has three funding streams for primary/secondary education while USA with property taxes alone is mediocre 40th in math.
Solution to American Student Loan Debt, fix failed system of American primary/secondary education, and achieve FIRST in world education/workforce training within ten years:
. Execute plan to have American primary/secondary education lead the world within ten years with appropriate funding and curriculum.
. Cap tuition and other college costs.
. Strip out 50% of the costs and improve quality by having best in world instructors teach over internet, combined/augmented with physical class attendance as appropriate.
. Blue collar workers included with best in world workforce training.
. Discharge all American student debt.
. US government funds best in world education/workforce training for ALL Americans.
. Corporations pay education/workforce training tax as educated workforce beneficiaries.
.Employed graduates pay a modest education/workforce training tax as % of income for twenty years.
. All visa labor racketeering schemes are abolished and replaced with incentives to encourage educating, training, hiring American citizens.
. National education/workforce training goals set each year with vigorous effort to meet them
with incentives for students, teachers, schools, and corporations who meet or exceed them.
. Special attention given to the sciences including medicine, nursing, information technology to provide the high skilled workforce needed for United States to lead world into next century.
. Every elected official in United States must provide a plan to achieve education/workforce training goals in their jurisdiction and be held accountable.
. Noise ordinances strictly enforced against nuisance noise which can be either heard or discerned inside one’s home with the windows and doors closed.