제19대 대통령선거 고등교육 분야 공약에 대한 일고찰: 재정 지원을 중심으로

It is very important for who to allocate a national budget from people's tax to whom, when and in what method. Only the representatives selected by elections can be the main body of allocation. Out of them, the president is the most important representative in that it is a self decision making organization and the head of the Administration who allocates the national budget. So pledges of each presidential candidate is a blueprint to show who to allocate people's taxes to whom, how and when. This study reviewed pledges on universities and financial support to universities by 4 major candidates and their parties. All candidates pledged more financial support in various ways to the universities and their students. In democratic society, however, real freedom is coming from financial independence. If we have concerns on discriminative allocation of financial support, we can turn all back to the power of “market” without any financial support to any university. It can be another solution to stop scattered financial support on universities by the government. “Education consumers” will compare and decide between university registration fee and opportunity cost of additional earning after with a bachelor degree, if a bar for national scholarship is raised. It's a time to think whether a support from tax to universities and students is blocking logical selection of education consumers and can be a counter discrimination for non-university-going-students.