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The Loan You Never Agreed To

Most graduates think they took out a loan to go to university. They didn't — not in any meaningful sense of the word. They signed up to a 30-year graduate tax that's collected through payroll, charges interest that has at points exceeded 7%, and is sold by the government to private investors.