Dr. Aedín Doris:

From my point of view, the regressivity that involves people who have never had a higher education paying for the higher education of anyone else is far more serious. It seems completely unfair to me that so much of the taxes paid by people who have never gone to college or whose kids have no intention of ever going to college are used to pay for higher education to give people a leg-up through the income distribution. It is a much greater unfairness than asking people from poor backgrounds but who end up doing well in the labour market as a result of having a degree to pay a contribution towards those costs. It is a matter of emphasis.