Or maybe you buy a computer for your kid as they're going off to college.

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As parents, our culture provides us with a cutoff around 18 to 21, depending on whether our children are going off to college or the military or straight into work after high school.

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So then you decide you buy a new computer for your kid going off to college or you finally trade in that old, beat-up car you got, and so businesses then, they have more profits.

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Put that money in your pockets, and that allows you -- that's like a huge tax cut for you, which you could then spend at restaurants and at stores, and helping to pay that college tuition for that kid who is going off to college.

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All the same, the Welsh government will be acutely aware that the whole point of digging deep into the public purse to offer financial support to students was to prevent bright young Welsh pupils being put off going to college.

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The paradoxical effect of government aid is that it makes people going to college worse off.

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They chose to protect my tax cut, while cutting 140, 000 unemployed workers out of their job training programs, 100, 000 working families out of their child care assistance, and worst of all, while cutting 300, 000 poor children out of their after-school programs, when we know it keeps them off the streets, out of trouble, in school, learning, going to college and having a good life.

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