An 8 percent lifetime ‘tax’ is coming for students

Fundamental reform, not quick fixes, will save America’s education system.

Excerpt: "Though no one has suggested it, the government’s fiscal problems could be solved by an 8 percent income tax surcharge. Nobody has suggested it because it is an absurd idea, but we have already imposed a comparable tax on K-12 students:

The declines in student achievement over the past dozen years work out to similar lifetime income reductions!"