# Would some economist please explain: What's wrong with outsourcing?

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**Created:** [August 13, 2016, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-some-economist-please-explain-whats-wrong-with-outsourcing/762720 "2016-08-13T21:43:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 23, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-some-economist-please-explain-whats-wrong-with-outsourcing/762720/161 "2016-08-23T02:17:31Z")

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> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#):
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> If this starts to derail this thread, we can move this discussion to another thread. I am pretty sure we have had this thread on this board before.

That would be [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=783725):

> [@Sanders proposals and how to pay for them.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanders-proposals-and-how-to-pay-for-them/745741/73):
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> It looks like the OP’s plan takes away federal grants and loans from ~1.9MM students at private non-profit colleges who currently \*can’t \*afford the cost to attend, and gives that to ~1.7MM students at public colleges who currently _can_ afford the cost to attend.

Never mind that a student who has maxed out federal aid at a public college costs the taxpayers less if he or she switches to a private college, due to the absence of state subsidy.

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