Given that children from wealthier households are more likely to pursue higher education, directing limited public resources, including tax revenues, toward reducing its cost amounts to a subsidy for the wealthy, at the expense of the poor. A better approach would be to introduce tuition fees for the wealthy and scholarships for the poor.
让人人上得起大学的努力问题更大。由于较富家庭的孩子更可能获得高等教育，将有限的公共资源（包括税收收入）用于降低大学学费是劫贫济富。更好的办法是对富人家庭的孩子收学费，给穷人家庭的孩子奖学金。