Govt used to fund public colleges at high levels: public colleges in the 70s, 80s, early 90s; pull back from govt has added to need of schools to increase tuition. We need to decide on our priority: Tax breaks for corporations or higher learning opportunities for our people?

May 28, 2019 · 9:16 PM UTC

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We don't. Because Fed spending isn't from tax dollars. Fed tax & Fed spending are SEPARATE functions. Tax business & rich people b/c they have 2 much $ & influence. Congress creates US dollars when they spend. There is no shortage of $. #LearnMMT so we can #Unite4anewdeal
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Maybe learning how to increase the value of a bachelor's first...then working out the math and strategies to pay the costs of higher education?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
taxing corporations reinforces the idea that corporations are people (they are not) and is a pass through cost to poor people. not only are tax dollars not needed for funding at federal level, but we if we tax we should be taxing wealth not activities that are helpful.
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The govt. defunding of higher education that began in the 1970’s correlates with open enrollment. A lot of public universities were tuition-free until the minority students showed up. Schools erected economic barriers to replace the racist ones.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
We have a federal gov't of strictly defined powers and responsibilities. The list of things over which Congress has authority are listed in the Constitution, Article 1, Section 8. Unless you can find the word "education" there, it is not a proper function of the federal gov't.
How about not sending Iran $150. billion in cash on crates and closing our borders to invaders costing us billions when we have homeless people? Or does that make too much sense?
The colleges also are super greedy and wasteful. They also removed the caps that they had in how much they can charge. They went hot would with that
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