[PittsburghAfterDark]

Why it was just a mere 12 months ago when hundreds if not thousands of students in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh from Pitt, CMU, Point Park, Duquesne, Chatham etc were flooding through the streets in orgasmic joy on the "hope and change" that was going to be sweeping through the land!

Now that the seniors have graduated and discovered what hope and change mean in the real world what better lesson could Mayor Ravenstahl offer the "leaders of tomorrow" about what Democratic policies offer than to tax them right now?

Kudos to Mayor Ravenstahl! Show those kids precisely what being a Democrat is all about! Make them take out even larger student loans to finance your failing city! Nothing like financing your troubled city with yet more borrowed debt from those lease able to afford to do so!

Folks, I can think of nothing that will make a generation of constitutional conservatives faster than this.

[malkee]

It’s a ‘burgh thing. This is really pathetic.

[napscoordinator]

College costs appoximately 9,000 dollars a year and they want to add another 90 dollars on to it. What are they thinking???? Of course when you are thinking 9,000 dollars, 90 dollars does seem like a small amount, but what will the percentage be next year 10 percent?

[malkee]

P.S. It will take a long time for ANY of those kids to become constitutional conservatives, if ever. I used to teach ‘em, and ought to know.

[prisoner6]

BRILLIANT!

prisoner6

[ICE-FLYER]

Leave it to a disgustingly liberal ploy...After all, its liberals who take form others to give away to people (some deservingly many not) and then have the audacity to tax those who actually pay for their own way. THIS IS DOUBLE TAXATION. Demonstrate this to a court..or better yet..do not pay taxes to this abhorrent Mayor.

[skr]

I wonder how that will go over with all those Obama voters in college?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

The students should go after their Marxist professors who keep telling them how great communism is.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Why it was just a mere 12 months ago when hundreds if not thousands of students in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh from Pitt, CMU, Point Park, Duquesne, Chatham etc were flooding through the streets in orgasmic joy on the “hope and change” that was going to be sweeping through the land!”

Yes, and for their enthusiasm they are now saddled with a horrific increase in national debt, will be forced to buy health insurance at a cost above what they would have paid before the risk got ‘spread around’, are less safe because of our foreign policy blunders, and now are potentially facing tuition taxes. Oh, and they will have to keep paying that tuition because there aren't many jobs out there right now. But Obama is cool..

[monocle]

I would have no objections to increasing the taxes on the professors who brainwah their students with toxic ideas. I suspect that their hourly compensation is way out of line. If Obama can control executive salaries why not professor salaries. Lower professor salaries should lower the cost of higher education - just what the professors advocate.

[jocon307]

“It technically would not be a levy on the students or their schools...”

Well, who is going to pay it? It will ACTUALLY be a levy on that party.

[Pearls Before Swine]

This is right up there with taxing health costs, or eliminating the state tax exemption as an example of government greed.

[Rannug]

Another reason for my dislike of Pittsburg. Love those Steelers tho. OH - IO