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It is a government handout that pays state university tuition for almost any moron from Louisiana who can write their name on an ACT exam.

Any "conservative" who has yelled about government handouts in the past yet fusses to keep this welfare-like money flowing for their kid is a laughable hypocrite.

I see what you’re saying but tuition payments are just supplementary money for a public university. The taxpayers are already heavily subsidizing the education. Now there’s an argument to be made for students to have some skin in the game, but public universities are already a partial hand out, even without TOPS. Taking a principled stance against TOPS is sorta arbitrary.

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Posted by BigJim

Baton Rouge

Member since Jan 2010

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Posted on 6/24/18 at 10:38 am to cahoots

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The taxpayers are already heavily subsidizing the education. Now there’s an argument to be made for students to have some skin in the game, but public universities are already a partial hand out, even without TOPS. Taking a principled stance against TOPS is sorta arbitrary.

This guy gets it.

Think of them as vouchers for college and you can see the conservative perspective.

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Posted by Jake88

Member since Apr 2005

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Posted on 6/24/18 at 1:17 pm to cahoots

I understand what you are saying, but it is roughly a $10,000/year freebie to LSU students that qualify. It's a complete handout not partial. If the govt didn't fund LSU it wouldn't exist and those dollars spent are understood. It's the demand for full assistance that is hypocritical and disgusting.

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