Traditional publishers are using the last-resort tactic of government force. Also, the idea that a price could be "harmful" is ludicrous. A price cannot cause bodily injury, it cannot stalk or threaten you, it cannot forcibly take your money. If a price increases dramatically, you are free to seek alternatives.

FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS

My reward for being a good designer/coder was to oversee a large design/code team. I miss designing/coding.

A corporation alone cannot harm or control you. It can only do that with the help of government.

How about the states pay for their own stuff? Why should someone from Ohio pay for California's earthquake system?

The last 30 years have seen the biggest increase in regulation. Look at the size of the federal register.

How about paying for what you use?

They don't need a $10B bureaucracy to do it.

Yeah, we need the FCC, they're great.

Forced licensing is and always has been a tool for limiting competition, under the guise of protecting the consumer. And here we see, yet again, the consumer is actually hurt, not helped.

I hope all of you Obama supporters are happy now.

Next time you look in the mirror you'll realize you are nothing but a sucker who got duped by slogans and promises.

Most 4-year degrees are not worth the price of admission. In our necessarily employment-focused world, most liberal arts degrees are totally worthless. Instead, completing a certain college with a certain GPA acts as an indicator of your potential worth to an employer. It's a $100,000 standardized test. The stuff you learned may help you on Jeopardy, but not in your job.

Even with focused disciplines like Computer Science, about half of the courses are useless for employment sake. Learning programming, design, teamwork, project planning, management, etc. are useful. Chemistry and calculus are not.

At some point people will realize this and stop paying $100k for college.

Every day some new boondoggle is revealed from Washington DC. Let's just cancel the federal government.

"The Obama administration has provided a loan guarantee..." So if it fails, is Obama going to personally take the financial hit?

The submitter, 0ryan0, states that the change was made because "Democracy" contains the word "Democrat". This reason is not mentioned at all in the article.