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Someone please explain to me how paying tuition for 55,000 students is only going to cost "$25 to $35 million a year".

The number is *easily* 500% more than that - at $10K per year (which even at that seems pretty low), that comes out to $550M/year...

1 posted on 09/19/2019 5:27:37 AM PDT by qwerty1234
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Don’t know why these schools aren’t run entirely by students, except for professors who actually teach classes. Students would receive real world experiences working up from cafeteria workers to administrators.


2 posted on 09/19/2019 5:31:43 AM PDT by jonose
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Sponsoring terrorism with tax money.

Hey, my speech paying for an establishment of someone else’s opinions and religion, so constitutional...


3 posted on 09/19/2019 5:31:58 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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Of course the democrat party wants to fund/control the state universities. How better to indoctrinate the sheep with their socialist agenda.


4 posted on 09/19/2019 5:32:21 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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MLG is the AOC of ABQ.


5 posted on 09/19/2019 5:32:26 AM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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I wish they would stop using the word “Free” Anytime a politician promises to give away anything for”Free” they should have to say “Tax-Payer Funded” instead!


6 posted on 09/19/2019 5:32:47 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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According to the article the state is to pay the amount which is not already covered by grants, Etc. So the State is not paying the entire amount of the tuition just the amount that now must be paid for by the students and is not covered by any programs.


7 posted on 09/19/2019 5:33:03 AM PDT by billyboy15
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I guess everyone who wants to send their kids to college will be moving to New Mexico for all that free stuff. Hope there are plenty of jobs to support mom and dad.


8 posted on 09/19/2019 5:33:45 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are living in the Last Days. The Bible says so, and I believe it!! Know Him now!!)
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It’s a “an absolute game-changer” for the state

I'm sure that "game change" will take the quality from this:



To this...


9 posted on 09/19/2019 5:36:17 AM PDT by VanDeKoik ( In heap big peace pipe)
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This isn’t college anymore - this is extended public education and an outdated mode of learning at that.

In addition this is nothing more than an illegal political kickback to universities and teachers unions (Democrats)


10 posted on 09/19/2019 5:37:18 AM PDT by Skywise
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LOL. Being generous and estimating cost at 50 million, for 55k students thats just over 900 dollars per student.


11 posted on 09/19/2019 5:37:29 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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Once, long ago, I was taking Intro to Economics. The professor was berating another student for basically not even trying. He said, “You’re just wasting your tuition money!”

The student replied, “What do I care? It’s Daddy’s money and he’s got plenty.”

Multiply that by 55,000 and tell me what you’ve accomplished with “free” college.


12 posted on 09/19/2019 5:37:43 AM PDT by irv (Live Tea or die!)
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It’s not free if the ‘RATS steal money from the taxpayers to pay for it. It’s only free if the colleges don’t charge any tuition and all of the “perfessers” are true socialists who teach classes voluntarily and only receive donations thrown in a hat by their “students”.


13 posted on 09/19/2019 5:38:26 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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Random thought. Does anyone from outside New Mexico actually travel to New Mexico to go to college? All the other states around it have major universities and it makes sense, but not New Mexico. LOL


14 posted on 09/19/2019 5:38:56 AM PDT by Durbin
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My daughter earned an associates degree from a Maryland community college.

It was a huge incentive for her to get all A’s when she found out that she got a full refund of her tuition.

We didn’t know about it till after she got the first check.

I can’t stand big government programs but if you’re bound and determined, this is a far better way.

Pay first, succeed and get the reward later.

We also decided early on that we were not going to pay for our kids college. I don’t know where that insane idea came from that parents are responsible to do so.

We loaned them money as needed and with one exception, it’s all been paid back.

One of our kids paid all his college debt within one year. That’s what happens when you replace ___________ studies with ____________ engineering.


15 posted on 09/19/2019 5:39:58 AM PDT by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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College costs and tuition in NM are about to skyrocket, with no improvement in education or raises for the professors. It will go to all the new administrators they will hire...


17 posted on 09/19/2019 5:41:32 AM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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The only thing that has a prayer on making this work is the revenue from the oil boom, which the demonicrats in NM are trying to kill.


18 posted on 09/19/2019 5:44:16 AM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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It’s so low because all the socialist professors have agreed to work for free./s


19 posted on 09/19/2019 5:46:49 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Everyone who favors socialism plans on the government taking other people's money, not theirs.)
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Simple. Teachers and professors work for nothing.


20 posted on 09/19/2019 5:46:53 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?)
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Wouldn’t this violate Sec 505 of the IIRIRA...?

Section 505 of IIRIRA mandates that unauthorized immigrants “shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.”


21 posted on 09/19/2019 5:47:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds)
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MLG is trying to destroy the oil and gas industry in the state as it is. Why would anyone believe what she is saying that oil and gas would provide the funding?

Instead of improving the roads or the homeless situation, or the DWI problems in the state, MLG wants more giveaways.

24 posted on 09/19/2019 5:50:31 AM PDT by Wizdum (The Dems are not afraid a wall won't work, the Dems are TERRIFIED a wall WILL work.)
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