Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Jesse Jackson Blames High Tuition Costs On Tax Cuts

Jesse Jackson has to gem of a quote:
Consider one choice that Congress is about to make. If the current leadership has its way, Congress will pass more than $100 billion in tax cuts early this year, the vast bulk of which will go to the very wealthy. At the same time, it will cast the final vote to make the largest cut in student college loan programs in history -- some $12.7 billion over five years.

I doubt that many Americans would support raising the cost of college for students to reduce taxes on the wealthiest Americans, yet that is exactly what the administration and the conservative leadership of Congress plan.
Since,colleges have been raising tuition every year for the last couples of decades,what's the causality between tax cuts and increased college tuition?Tuition will go down when the federal government cuts off the gravy train.