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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This idea violates the Ten Commandments and the U.S. Constitution.
“Thou shall not steal.”
This amounts to taking money from one group of people, taxpayers, at the point of a gun, and handing it another group, students. That’s robbery.
“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”
— James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution
No way. We should be moving in the opposite direction of what he is suggesting. For starters, dump the mortgage interest deduction. I have no mortgage, why should I be subsidizing people who do?
We would have 20k new colleges the following week.
So how are the Rand Paul supporters going to defend Rand Paul’s statement and view on collage tutition sticking to the tax payers write offs ?
a simple flat or fair tax would be a lot better, methinks.
1. when the Income tax was created, the campaign for adopting it promised that ‘the average working man will not pay a dime in income tax!”... it was pitched as an attack on the steel and oil and railroad millionaires, that is the One Percenters, only
ALSO, the tax filing form really did fit on the back of a post card.
“Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.” …When Rand said that back in June of 2013, he revealed a strong preference for big government, never mind a weak stance on protecting our borders.
Rand Paul : Let’s write off collage tutitions of the young so we can stick the tax bill to older workings tax payer Americans.
No Rand Paul, I am NOT going to pay for some one else’s collage education.
Socialized Education on steroids....
RandyPaulcare Collage Education service, cheap education for everyone....
RANDYPAULCARE EDUCATION, WERE WE STICK THE BILL TO THE OLDER WORKING TAX PAYERS.... PROVIDED BY YOUR CARING FERDERAL GOVERMENT....more big government..
Well truth is I alway view education as capital investment I’m looking for return on....
im a computer systems network engineer I have no college degree but make 6 figures..
.it’s been all technical training and certifications ..
And no matter if im permanent or contract employee with the company I always see myself as an independent business... my knowledge and expertise is my product ..a service I sell
I have to do this another round of classes coming up..two grand... for new education as the technology moves on. average I roll around 5 to 10 per year back in books and training per year.
My knowledge is my tools to do business with.... so any training class is a capital investment ...but before I commit to it I have to evaluate what kind of return i will get out of it
RANDYPAUL CARE EDUCATION : Stick it to the tax payers once again..
I would rather help pay for 2 years of college than a life time of welfare.
Is that the choice you want to impose on us, pay for you to go to college, and if so you will work, or if not, then we pay you welfare because you don’t want the work that you get without a degree?
Rander Pander, like it
Oh I’m sure they will think of something
Oh, great. As soon as that passes, the skools will use that as an excuse to up the tuition once again.
Free Collage Education = Socialized Education brought to you by Rand Paul , and then stick it to the older working tax payers... The Rand Paul Way...
A education scheme that commies love..
You are free to send the IRS an additional check each month with a note
that explains your generosity.
Like this ?
They ( Rand Paul supporters ) will defy us and say that the media is out to get him and trying to smear him with something he didn’t say, or those aren’t his words or views...
It’s socialized education no matter how you look at it and sticking it to the older working tax payers....
Wonder why the Rand Paul supporters are quite on this one ? Perhaps it makes him look bad and another big government candidate...
RandyPaul Care : Socialised Free Collage Education... Paid for by hard working older tax payers...
They can’t defend that one...
Eliminate the corporate tax. A flat 15% on income.
They could at least expand the student loan interest deduction.
Firstly you can only deduct up to $2500 per year and secondly once your income gets too high it’s eliminated entirely.
My daughter took loans, got an education, has an excellent job and now she can’t deduct her interest. If she had taken basket weaving and was working at starbucks, she wouldn’t have that problem
So, it’s a bit bait-and-switchy, imho.
How bout a law that says, you don’t graduate from high school you get NO govt assistance. Unless you are physically or mentally disabled you get nothing, period.
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