Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul proposes ending the federal student loan program, which has lured students into $1 trillion in debt and enabled colleges to keep raising tuition.
“Just think of all this willingness to want to help every student get a college education,” said Paul, who graduated from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania before earning a medical degree at the Duke University School of Medicine. “I went to school when we had none of those. I could work my way through college and medical school because it wasn’t so expensive.”
Gettysburg College now charges $42,610 a year, while annual tuition at Duke’s medical school runs $46,621.
