Ed Miliband suggests taxing graduates to fund universities

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/darfuri-teenager-killed-himself-after-being-told-ndash-wrongly-ndash-of-deportation-1990011.html
Milliband said today in the Guardian that he would talk to vice-chancellor and universities to make a plan to replace the tuition fees you pay at the beginning with a graduate tax. Milliband hopes the parliament and Lord Browne will consider this proposition . Lord Browne is researching and reviewing the higher education funding. Lord Browne thinks he will be ready to report after the summer. Milliband say that he thinks Britain needs a ‘new settlement’. It needs to help students and their families to take the load of their burden. There have been studies that show that if you change the intuition fees that a student pays at the beginning of a year to a graduate tax of 0.25 % to 2% that students pay after graduation and the tax will come of their income, it could raise more money for the universities that the system they have now.

I think it has its up and its downs. It is better for the universities and for the students if they cannot afford it at the moment. But I wonder if you can are you forced to pay the graduate tax or can you pay immediately. Because after your finished you have a burden before you have done anything. And is this all or is there more to it. Because what happens with the people who are studying a profession that takes a long time to find a job? Overall I think it is a great Idea. But the thought of paying a tax for over 20 years seems like a burden.