We already have a system which is supposed to ensure that the wealthy pay more for their services. It's called income tax. Perhaps if FF hadn't continually reduced the top rate of tax, which favoured the rich disproportionately, rather than widening the bands then the Universities could've been properly funded.
At the time the fees were abolished it was PAYE workers that bore the brunt of them, since self employed and self assessed workers could massage their figures to avoid them. FF just love giving get outs for those that aren't PAYE, like all the tax breaks of recent years. Tuition fees are just another example.
And btw, it's a stretch to call our education system free as it is. Between books and "voluntary" contributions, calling it a subsidised education system would be more realistic. We had to pay to feckin register our child with a school ffs.
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