Obama Says Spending on Prisons is Main Reason College Tuition Has Gone Up
Well that’s a new one. I think the president deserves some credit for creativity here.
Craig Banister of CNS News reported.
Obama: Spending on Prisons Is ‘Main Reason Tuition Has Gone Up’
“The main reason that tuition has gone up so much is that state legislatures stopped subsidizing public universities as much as they used to, in part because they started spending money on things like prisons and other activities that I think are less productive. And so schools then made up for the declining state support by jacking up their tuition rates.”
So, is the president advocating that states spend less on amenities for prisoners – or letting criminals out of prison (a pathway to freedom)? He didn’t say.
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Why is anything being subsidized?????? A subsidy is nothing more than taxpayer money being directed so that politicians can look good. The gov should not be in business of warping the market. The main reason tuition has gone up is because not enough students are walking away from the high prices, preferring to saddle themselves with massive debt.
The fact that colleges and universities have grossly inflated their administrative staffs – the vast majority of whom would vote for him – to the point that they outnumber the teaching faculty at some schools has nothing to do with it, I take it? Gotta protect one’s friends, after all.