Why is the price of higher education rising while taxes for the rich are falling?

Ervin Laeger: Platitudes. Combine them with a buck. You can buy a cup of coffee at McDonald's. We have about 50% of recent college graduates unemployed. Let's encourage more of it. Let's train more of them of jobs that don't exist. Tell us with all of their education they can't create the jobs they need. Remind us of their jobs that were exported to China. They didn't require college when they were here but now some how they do.When the rich are taxed according to Obama'a plan we will gain enough revenue to run the federal government for eight days. What should we do for the rest of the year? So far what we have see is borrow more money in four years than all other presidents combined borrow in the previous two hundred a thirty-two years. A genius strategy to be sure. So far we have massive debt as opposed to the claim to cut the debt in half in four years.Our Secretary of the Treasury would like congress to relinquish its control of finances to the President.! To Hell with what the Constitution says. This sounds like Mohamed Morisi. I wonder if any liberal with a superior education that they all claim to have has any idea how this government is actually set up and why. We used to learn all of this and understand it in Middle School....Show more

Ronny Dorge: Taxes on the rich are not falling and you will have to ask the liberal elites why they keep raising the cost of college.

Rosann Mccomb: When Jefferson spoke of education, he meant that people should understand the value of freedom and the natural rights of man. He encouraged it as a means to the end of wise governance. He was not speaking of taxing the public to fund general education from age 5 to 21. In Jefferson's time, such a concept would have been considered infamous."Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable themto see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. And it requires no very high degr! ee ofeducation to convince them of this. They are the only su! re reliance for the preservation of our liberty." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.Also consider this quote from James Madison regarding the general welfare clause of the Constitution. It is remarkably prescient and expresses his repugnance for the idea of federally managed education."If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare,and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare,they may take the care of religion into their own hands;they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parishand pay them out of their public treasury;they may take into their own hands the education of children,establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union;they may assume the provision of the poor;they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads;in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislationdown to the most minute object of police,would be thrown under the power of Congress.... Were the powerof Congress ! to be established in the latitude contended for,it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very natureof the limited Government established by the people of America."If you personally want the federal government to fund public education for everyone through University level, say *you* believe it. Don't claim that our founding fathers would be cheering on such a ridiculous notion....Show more

Davis Zou: Anyone who wants an education can get one if he works hard enough. Stop taking out all your frustration on the Job Creators and pull yourself up from your bootstraps. FACT.

Elvie Drumgoole: By your writing you appear to be a hypocrite and progressive, euphemizing your position by hiding behind a degree and the pretense of being reasonable and willing to compromise. The "flame" of the 1% comes from the desire to succeed, produce and profit by creating goods and services that are in demand, not the redistribution of wealth and pontification of gove! rnment.Now that we understand each other, simply put, higher education! is a FOR PROFIT endeavor in the U.S. And Thomas Jefferson refers to education in general -- Universities do not have a monopoly on learning. There is this thing called life experience and motivation to succeed. 90% of what you learn you have and will teach yourself. The cost of tuition is going up because the government is willing to loan out more money to students -- hence tuition inflation (More money chasing fewer schools -- use that degree of yours). Did you honestly think that tuition costs would remain fixed? They do not follow the rate of inflation -- they follow the rise of government lending to students that spend themselves into government servitude and are THANKFUL because somewhere they ceased to believe that they could pay for college on their own. A private university has economic analysts and marketers just like any other corporation/business. If the U.S. government average college student loan is $25,000 the University would at least ask for that mu! ch. By the way, the average salary for a University Professor is well above $75,000 tenured -- part of that 1%. Also, the power of the common man is derived from the Constitution -- in this country, power is not lost, it is given away through ignorance and whining.You may have a degree in Economics and a pretty award, but if you had any business sense you would know that it only costs $40,000 to open up a Subway Sandwich Franchise and for the tuition you paid for U.Mich. you could have opened up 6 of them and be generating over $500,000 annually in profit by now. Instead, like so many students, you probably have a $200,000 student loan debt. If you aren't making at least $250K a year your education was a horrid investment.Also understand that ALL INDICATIONS are that taxes will be rising (The Fiscal Cliff and impending "Social Justice" mantra of the current administration.) It is not the wealthy that are destroying the country. It is what happens when the entitlement! generation is so vast that it can no longer be supported by the produc! ers. Look at the collapsing socialist systems of Greece, Italy and much of Europe.No one wishes to compromise with a thief and grave robber. E.g. The Estate Tax is a euphemism for Stealing from the Dead. Enjoy your degree -- You will go much further in life if you realize that this isn't about ethics, or ideals. It's about a government that believes it has a right to everything that you earn.Your kind of compromise means give up more freedom to be cared for by a nanny state--which is very expensive to maintain, particularly for an entity that produces nothing. You sound like the old broken record of the socialist party and it will be difficult correcting your U. Michigan education. You've spent far too much money polishing it....Show more

Darrin Hixenbaugh: people who claim that taxes on the rich are falling are either too stupid, too dishonest or BOTH to argue with!

Ha Wolski: Unfortunately it is nearly over for us, my friend. Higher education for common p! eople is nowhere near Asian countries anymore. Japan/Korea/China have long surpassed us in higher education. Only China is a bit behind in university education, however, they are improving it. The only good side that we have now is the private colleges that give graduate degrees, which will look like kindergarden in a few decades due to the participation from the rich or asians; not from the intelligent people of our own continent....Show more

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Elli Esaw: There is one word in your post I want you to focus on. Compromise. There is no such thing as a liberal America and a conservative America, we are all gray. But with our extreme bi-partisa! nship, we have created these two Americas. This is what has stagnated our economy, political system, and American Spirit.