Posted on 04/15/2025 1:35:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
And end tax exempt status for churches, too
Try that in Hebrew now, and find out what the pro Hamas protestors actually believe about freedom of speech.
Do what you want - just not with my tax dollars.
This isn't hard.
Equal treatment under the law - Make it clear that because of Harvard’s decisions all grants and contracts to all colleges are hereby suspended. Goodbye to everyone’s tax exempt status just for the desert kicker. Let them turn on each other, film at 11.
Did they mention Harvard’s association with the CIA?
"Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Harvard is right about limited federal government power in general, but evidently doesn't understand that the problem is unconstitutional federal funding.
More specifically, not only did President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, also Justice Joseph Story, both indicate that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution in order for Congress to have the power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate schooling purposes, something that the states have never done, but the Supreme Court has also clarified in general that Congress cannot tax and spend for things like intrastate schooling.
"The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education [all emphases added], the poor laws, or the road laws of the states." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Given the recent alleged massive federal spending fraud claimed by Mr. Musk, the main reason that elite desperate Democrats and RINOs provide unconstitutional federal funding for schools and many other things is probably to effectively buy votes to stay in power imo.
Let’s also not forget that Harvard )and others) get very special tax treatment on the earnings from their huge endowments, treatment that other businesses, individuals and others don’t get. If I remember right, their earnings are taxed at less than 5%. They are so special.
That’s a nice endowment you have there, Harvard. It would be a shame if someone taxed it
So...they are private...they make profits off those successful projects.
They are private “non-profits”...the government gets all resulting patents, and grant donors like the DoD get the results of the research. There is some question about what a non-profit research university “nets” on grants tho.:
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/03/20/how-is-an-american-research-university-funded/
Research Patents Law (”Bayh-Dole Act”):
https://www.nist.gov/tpo/policy-coordination/bayh-dole-act/2018-faqs
https://grants.nih.gov/policy-and-compliance/policy-topics/intellectual-property/bayh-dole
The letter that was sent to Harvard by the Feds:
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf
The Harvard response:
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/
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