[TaxRelief]

There is one burning question that I could not get answered: Who are you, Kevin Saucer? Student? Faculty? Friend?

Well, Kevin, there are many reasons why UConn's tuition rose $1,014 last year, and why it is going to rise again this year.

Teacher's salaries cost is one of those reasons. In the real world, we all know that salaries in private business can only rise if productivity also rises. In the academic world, teachers can only increase productivity if they increase the number of student/class hours that they teach. But, because of unions, instead of increasing hours, they have decreased the number of student/class hours that they teach. Yet they still expect annual raises and increased benefit packages.

Well they can thank President Bush, because one of the first programs slated for major reductions was the Federal Pell Grant Program.

Federal 'cutbacks' are not one of the reasons. Pell Grants are distributed to more people every year, including imprisoned sex offenders as evidenced in the the St. Petersburg Times. There has been a rash of drastic increases in lateral subsidies from some students (and taxpayers) to others. YOU may now qualify less than someone else does.

Mr. Saucer erroneously states states that Federal funds have been reduced, but according to President Bush's radio address yesterday morning, "We boosted our request for Pell grants, which help adults of all ages pay for college, by 45 percent since I took office. And I've asked Congress to establish personal reemployment accounts for out-of-work Americans, to help them in their job search."

Another burning question might be: How many of these "letters" have there been sent to student publications across the country? It would be great if Freepers could keep watch on their Alma Maters or local campus papers for similar DNC propaganda.

More info the economics of tuition costs.

[TaxRelief]

Yahoo directory of Campus publications:

http://dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/College_and_University/Newspapers/By_Region/U_S__States/

[weegee]

Much to Ehrhardt's disappointment, Democrats do not want to start a "class war."

Too late. The Rats have already used class envy and race baiting to divide the nation.

[Thoro]

The fundamental idea of Reaganomics is that, since the upper class pays more taxes, they should be given the larger percentage of the tax refund.

But they weren't really. It's all in percentages, and in looking at what the percentages were before, and are now, if anything, the cut's been pretty even throughout the annual income scale. From 39 to 35 percent for the highest, and from 15 to 10 for the lowest.

[nothingnew]

The fundamental idea of Reaganomics is that, since the upper class pays more taxes, they should be given the larger percentage of the tax refund.

Wow! What a concept! Wow! What a socialist pig you are Saucer!

However, Ronald Regan's economic policy not only failed in achieving its overall goal, but also caused a recession that hurt the American people for the better part of six years.

Wow! What an ignorant A-Hole you are Saucer! Wow! How much money did your parents waste on your useless college education?

That $400 dollars does a lot of good when I have to pay an extra $1,000 to continue my education.

Wow! That's not an education sonny, that's $$$$ thrown down a RAT hole!

Much to Ehrhardt's disappointment, Democrats do not want to start a "class war."

Wow! They don't want to start a "class war" now...they started it years ago, you sniveling selfish sh*t-for-brains little socialist!......Wow!, did I just that?!

FMCDH

[Brilliant]

I think the middle class needs a bigger tax cut. Too bad we can't get the Dems to support it. They roll out their middle class tax cut only when it's needed to offer a competing plan to what the Republicans might be proposing at the time, and once the Republican plan passes, the Dems put their "middle class tax cut" back in their bag of tricks and it doesn't see the light of day until the next time the Republicans propose a tax cut.

[stylin19a]

Someone needs to tell the author that:

It is not a "cut" in aid, when a propsed 8% increase is reduced to a 4% increase.