Comments on: Tuition Increases Unfair http://www.lehighpatriot.com/eschmidt/tuition-increases-unfair/ Lehigh News and Commentary Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:54:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Hindi Songs chords http://www.lehighpatriot.com/eschmidt/tuition-increases-unfair/comment-page-1/#comment-6609 Hindi Songs chords Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:54:10 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=374#comment-6609 <strong>Hindi Songs chords...</strong> [...]Tuition Increases Unfair | The Lehigh Patriot[...]... Hindi Songs chords…

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]]> By: Michael Caffrey http://www.lehighpatriot.com/eschmidt/tuition-increases-unfair/comment-page-1/#comment-1077 Michael Caffrey Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:26:09 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=374#comment-1077 http://www.yaliberty.org/posts/how-government-programs-drive-up-college-tuitions Young Americans for Liberty had a pretty good video on the real cost of student loans and how they harm students. http://www.yaliberty.org/posts/how-government-programs-drive-up-college-tuitions

Young Americans for Liberty had a pretty good video on the real cost of student loans and how they harm students.

]]> By: MMA http://www.lehighpatriot.com/eschmidt/tuition-increases-unfair/comment-page-1/#comment-1060 MMA Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:44:01 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=374#comment-1060 ES, utilitarianism is no way to run a government, because it eventually breaks down. If the top 1% is taxed a considerable amount, they become unwilling to spend money. This hurts the working class, since less spending means less profit generated by companies who sell products, means more pay cuts, means more people out of work, means even MORE people unwilling to spend money, perpetuating the cycle until jobs dwindle, no revenue is generated and a Depression results. Taxing the rich severely also makes them less willing to donate money to charity, which hurts major social structures like Universities. Increasing tuition by $10,000 over 4 years pays for less than half a semester of one student's tuition- but if tuition wasn't increased, rich families would be more inclined to make a donation to the University, where a gift of $10,000 could conceivably pay for some new lab equipment, which would benefit many more students for the same amount of money. It's easy to resent the rich, but without the rich spending money, the whole system breaks down. Punishing the top tax bracket in time only punishes everyone else. ES, utilitarianism is no way to run a government, because it eventually breaks down. If the top 1% is taxed a considerable amount, they become unwilling to spend money. This hurts the working class, since less spending means less profit generated by companies who sell products, means more pay cuts, means more people out of work, means even MORE people unwilling to spend money, perpetuating the cycle until jobs dwindle, no revenue is generated and a Depression results.
Taxing the rich severely also makes them less willing to donate money to charity, which hurts major social structures like Universities. Increasing tuition by $10,000 over 4 years pays for less than half a semester of one student’s tuition- but if tuition wasn’t increased, rich families would be more inclined to make a donation to the University, where a gift of $10,000 could conceivably pay for some new lab equipment, which would benefit many more students for the same amount of money.
It’s easy to resent the rich, but without the rich spending money, the whole system breaks down. Punishing the top tax bracket in time only punishes everyone else.

]]> By: ES http://www.lehighpatriot.com/eschmidt/tuition-increases-unfair/comment-page-1/#comment-969 ES Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:13:47 +0000 http://www.lehighpatriot.com/?p=374#comment-969 Ah yes, let us all sympathize with the top 1% whose after-federal tax income of $842,739 is over 16 times the national average pre-tax income for a family in the United States as of 2007 ($50,233). Let us shed an additional tear for the top 1% whose after-federal tax income of $842,739 is over 38 times the pre-tax income, at minimum, of the 13.2% percent of the population that lives in poverty (less than $21,834 for a two child family). I think I may have difficulty sleeping tonight after considering the vast injustices the top 1% must face daily. http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/ Ah yes, let us all sympathize with the top 1% whose after-federal tax income of $842,739 is over 16 times the national average pre-tax income for a family in the United States as of 2007 ($50,233). Let us shed an additional tear for the top 1% whose after-federal tax income of $842,739 is over 38 times the pre-tax income, at minimum, of the 13.2% percent of the population that lives in poverty (less than $21,834 for a two child family). I think I may have difficulty sleeping tonight after considering the vast injustices the top 1% must face daily.

http://www.npc.umich.edu/poverty/

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