Posted on 04/11/2015 1:14:11 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Sen. Rand Paul called Friday for college tuition to be a tax writeoff in his first direct pitch to young voters of his presidential campaign.
Paul used the power of the pocketbook, along with calls for electronic privacy and reforming the criminal justice system, to appeal to what he called the "Instagram generation," a constituency he sees as vital to his nascent presidential campaign. Paul blasted President Obama's plan for free community college, telling the crowd of a few hundred people, mostly students, that it won't work because someone has to pay for professors and facilities.
"Let's let college students deduct the entire cost of their educations over their working careers. Let's make college tuition entirely deductible," Paul said. Paul did not elaborate on how this would happen and his campaign did not return a request for comment....
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Is this not already true when taking work related classes?
well, this is an easy one. the marxists don’t want it to be a write off because the ones they want to go to school (minorities, immigrants, socialist leaning population), don’t have earned income to write it off against.
exactly, we need an income tax surcharge on foreigners
lol
Idiot.
A collage loan bailout sticking it to the tax payer once again ?
I agree, but only if you pay for it without government assistance. :-)
Oh, I am sure it won’t be long now
He will probably conclude that prisoners should be paid too
More like pander whore
He’s starting to sound a little bit like you know who.
He has to be a Dem or he’s another looking to bring down the right wing in the country with all this pandering and lies.
That’s my money you’re so generous with, Senator Commie. Why not be a man and try to take it out of my pocket yourself? You frigging thieves are going to Hell.
Hey, Rand, is this retroactive for my now thirty-something kids?
ROI just like all those green energy companies that went bankrupt ?
FAIR TAX for all! ( Yeah! I am shouting.)
Rander Pander
Well, don’t liberal and libertarian share the same root word?
College tuition was already tax deductable up to $4000 if I recall correctly. The deduction was good no matter what classes you were taking.
Yippie Ki Yeah! Free Stuff!
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Just what we need — Pubbies trying to out give other Pubbies — using taxpayers’ money.
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I’d abolish property taxes before anything else.
I was thinking the same thing, Rand Paul is big government Libertarian who uses government hand outs to buy votes. It seems that Rand Paul confuses small government with weak government.
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