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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I keep hearing this..  Sure.  I don't have a right to their education.  I should also have the right to not have my tax $ subsidize them, shouldn't I?  Why not remove the non-profit nature of these institutions?  After all, they operate like a secret cabal, with ambiguous admission rules that pretty much guarantees that 99.99% of all children (i.e. future tax payers) will not benefit from them.  Why not pull the tax benefit?  Their fees will go up, you say?  Sure. Let it. Let it quadruple for all I care.  See how quickly they drop all their "URM" and "first-gen" pretenses. [/quote]

This stupid argument again.  Can we make the same rules for all non-profits?  Because there are plenty of churches that I don't like how they operate, and political PACs, and country clubs, and the NRA...  but that's not how any of this works.  Your vitriolic statement indicates a complete lack of understanding of basic civics.[/quote]

There's a difference here, though.  PP isn't talking about picking and choosing certain institutions, but rather whether or not our tax dollars should fund a broad category of institutions: those that artificially keep their numbers down to inflate the value of their degrees.  I think it goes back to the purpose of higher education -- if our government is subsidizing higher ED because 1) learning is a social good and 2) increased opportunities are beneficial to society as a whole, then that's the kind of institution they should fund.  Some of these institutions seem to be working against those principles, and that's fine, if that's their business model.  But we shouldn't subsidize it.[/quote]

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