[silverleaf]

In Maryland we pay state taxes. That supports our universities. Therefore state residents get a break on tuition. Our proposed Dream Act is that noncitizens children get the state tuition rate, if their parents can show they paid state taxes.

Now- why is Texas resident tuition lower? Who subsidizes it? Why the argument that noncitizen residents getting the state rate are a burden to taxpayers??

It is constantly argued that giving the children of illegals the state tuition rate is a cost to taxpayers.

[Eagle Eye]

It is constantly argued that giving the children of illegals the state tuition rate is a cost to taxpayers.

Thanks for expounding. As far as I know, the only people who are claiming that the children of illegals who get in-state tuition are a burden on Texas tax payers are those who A) oppose Perry and B) don't take the time to understand the situation or C) openly misstate it.

As far as I know, Texans fund government primarily by sales tax and property taxes. If one wanted to say that the increased tuition rates for out of state students subsidizes in state students, I wouldn't argue the point, but I don't think that there is any special rates or subsidies for any instate students. I think that those ideas are misstatements, some perhaps intentional.

[muawiyah]

The Maryland "giveaway tax dollars to the illegals" tuition program was stopped dead cold by a petition signed by the requisite number of voters to throw this to a public referendum.

The people took the question right out of the hands of the politicians.

Before it's over we'll see even Ike Leggett getting ridden out of state on a rail covered with molassas and sandfleas.

I find it highly irregular that Marylanders vote so often for politicians who hate them.