I think it ' s also important to consider that going through the doctoral program is often incredibly taxing to mental health on its own . As someone who generally never had mental health issues , I still had to deal with some very difficult times . If you were stressed out and had trouble keeping up with undergraduate work , I ' d think long and hard about staying in academia . <| sep |> I feel like there ' s a life lesson in that somehow . <| sep |> I ' m not opposed to modest deficits either . But , the government should base policy like taxation on no deficits , and then run deficits at a controlled rate . The notion of cutting any core government program just to cut spending like the republicans were proposing is a silly argument . I ' m tired of hearing the tired argument of reducing taxes to stimulate growth . Yes reducing taxes for someone who makes 50 k might do this . Reducing taxes for someone who makes 1 mil ? Intuitively you know that the economy doesn ' t have more demand and growth from more saving . That ' s what high income people do . I actually don ' t care how they fund the government much . As long as they do some sort of redisribution like UBI to get things back on track .