re: Trump plans to create American Academy - a federally controlled online college

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ou mean taking away their money won't make it cost less to go to their school?

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Trump would make them negotiate. Art of the deal and whatnot

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Trump plans to create American Academy - a federally controlled online college
Free online College + non woke = moving to the left

Only a dipshite cult member could say that

If Ron proposed this you would be blowing yourself over it

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That’s a problem Ron supporters will never have because-now hear me out-Ron’s an actual conservative who would never be so stupid as to propose something as moronic and big government as a national university.

A national university is something a Democrat would propose. You know, someone like Trump.

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I don’t see how this could cost more than a fraction of providing “free” education at brick and mortar schools.

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You're skeptical about the federal government's ability to do something poorly and it costing an order of magnitude more than it should?

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The universities are incentivized by national ranking publications to accumulate huge endowments. They don’t spend this money to reduce tuition costs. So in this specific instance, taxing their endowments would indeed lower education costs by forcing the universities to either spend down the endowments or pay taxes on the money. How you are unable to understand this is beyond me.

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I guess my economics degree from Chicago was all wrong. You’re right pal. Tax the hell outta them. I guess it was wrong of me to think that the majority of endowments are the result of charitable donations on money that has already been taxed, but that is beside the point.

So I guess we can just raise your taxes and you wouldn’t be clamoring for another dollar or 2 and hour raise?

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I think we need more specialized schools. If this helps people get to work, then so be it. A lot of people out there aren’t fit for the college experience. Not everyone needs that.

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Tech schools, community college, vocational schools, Diesel Driving Academy. The government already runs a job programs with tons of technical schools: the military.

What more do you want?

Do you think universities accumulating multi-billion dollar endowments while also increasing their tuition rates is a problem?

Also, just so you know, my biggest personal expense are income taxes. The money I pay in taxes at the state and federal level is disgusting. I abhor generally tax increases of any kind. But with that said, I do think in the area of college education that a tax on their multi-billion endowments is totally proper. If that makes me an unhinged leftist, so be it.

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Okay, I’ve only gone to public schools that are funded by government

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At the state and local level run by locally elected people-your friends and families.

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all most of you have thrown out is that it’s dumb idea. Great intellectual response from you.

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No, everybody has given reasons why it’s a harebrained scheme, which is Trump’s specialty.

Do you actually want a new federal entity, that will eventually end up in the hands of people like Erick Swalwell, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosis and Hakeem Jefferies?

This is 180 degrees from anything a real Conservative would propose. It’s just another example of how Trump doesn’t believe in anything except himself, and how little respect he has for Americans, as he attempts to bribe them with “freebies”. He’ll say anything and will do anything to win. He has no morals, no philosophical bearings, no vision-other keeping himself out of jail, and avenging 2020. He’ll lose if he’s the nominee, and his collateral damage will be epic-the Dems further entrenching themselves in power.

It’s amazing. Example after example of how Trump is not a conservative is demonstrated to you by Trump himself, and yet people will throw away everything they once claimed to believe, all because of some weird obsession over one man.

But DeSantis is the RINO.

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Also, just so you know, my biggest personal expense are income taxes. The money I pay in taxes at the state and federal level is disgusting. I abhor generally tax increases of any kind.

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I’m right there with you. And that is why it is important to have principles with respect to taxes. The day we start taxing things we hate or disagree with is the day we deviate from the very principles we purport to have.