SOME EYE OPENERS FOR ME FROM THE ARTICLE:
Today there are teachers at the UCLA Medical School who earn up to $2.4 million a year. There are 40 who earn between one million a year and this $2.4 million. In California it’s easy to find the incomes of these college administrators and teachers.
Douglas Houstin, Chancellor at Yuba County community college earns $273,000 a year. This used to be the salary earned by presidents of the most expensive and prestigious Ivy League universities. Now it’s not unusual. And in the future when these public college administrators retire, the students will have to pay their one-percenter retirement packages. That’s another cost of free tuition.
You can explain this till you are blue in the face. Sanders’ supporters won’t understand this until it directly affects their pocket books. And by that time it’ll be too late and Sanders will be long gone. And it’ll be somebody else’s fault.
ANSWER: DEMOCRATS!
As mentioned in related threads, low-information Senator Sanders is a great example why the ill-conceived 17th Amendment should never have been ratified.
More specifically, Sen. Sanders is unsurprisingly clueless that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes.
In fact, a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified in broad terms that Congress is prohibited from appropriating taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, vote-winning intrastate school issues in this example not among those powers.
”Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” - Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they also need to elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring, pro-gay activist justices.
They’ll still vote for it because it they know they won’t pay back any loans anyway. And it sounds like more fun than mom’s basement.
Colleges are just like any other business. They seek to maximize profits for the least amount of capital investment. They found their niche by getting students to take out ridiculous government loans to pay for essentially worthless “education”, and run a racket with business through the concept of meritocracy.
But all these good little indoctrinated socialists believe that THEY will be among the elite and not have to suffer the indignities of having to conform and comply.
Nothing is free. I taught my kids that early on.
It’s just mind boggling. Nothing is free. Sooner or later someone will have to pay for it in the form of taxes, and I seriously doubt it if the payers will be the super rich. Can’t these socialist supporters figure this out?
“Free” doesn’t mean good.
I love that we need “free” college - is there a current problem with colleges filling their campuses? No - as a matter of fact, most decent colleges/universities turn away students. So - what do we accomplish by making it free other than driving up the cost? Understanding of the law of supply and demand is not the Democrat’s strong point it would seem on the surface - although I would argue their intent is to collapse the system so they can totally control it.
Another good article on the situation: