re: Tax changes could cost LSU athletics up to $50 million

Well it's a good thing for LSU that our worthless, anti-American congress isn't going to pass shite. There are too many things in the tax proposal that would help a vast majority of Americans for them to actually pass it. They will change it so much that what actually hits the president's desk is nothing more than a slight adjustment of the current brackets.

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no greater waste of money than public education.

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All huge institutions, public or private, have wasteful spending. It's the nature of the beast.

But even shitty public schools are a better alternative than no public educaton at all.

As to your argument about paddling and expulsions, that would work in some cases, but it's a shortsighted strategy as a whole. There's a limit to the effectiveness of punitive measures in school. If you squeeze out all the bad apples, you are left with a better crop with more promise. But you have to try something with the bad apples.

A school system should not operate with the goal of weeding kids out and getting the bad ones to prison as quickly as possible. A private school might have that luxury, but that philosophy would fail terribly as a public policy.