They claim that parents and students are caught in a bind between high tuition for college but low pay from the companies that take advantage of all the highly trained manpower that colleges produce, arguing that it is only fair that those businesses that earn more should bear more of the burden of paying for education.
反高學費聯盟因此主張，政府應對「撿」現成人才的企業界開徵「教育紅利稅」──賺錢的企業要負擔更多的教育責任才公平。