Originally Posted by
ASaintBernard
I paid for all of my flight training and a college out of pocket. You will find a lot of people don't really disagree with what the bill is proposing. I don't have an opinion either way but flight training and college can be bought with wages earned and not just the GI Bill.
The Montgomery GI Bill required 40% be paid by the student. I think the "skin in the game" aspect of that 40% is valuable to prevent abuse. Maybe there could be a cap of $20,000 per year, and anything above that is paid at only 50% (up to another cap). There should probably be a cap put on the GI Bill overall that is easily discernible, such as $200,000 over the life of the bill. A typical non-flight training college student is not using more than about $25,000 per year if they are pursuing a B.A./B.S. degree at a state school.