Comments on: THE TOUGH CHOICES LOOK SUSPICIOUSLY LIKE EASY ONES

By: degreeducation.tk

degreeducation.tk — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 14:43:33 +0000

degreeducation.tk fh

By: Ross Douthat on Poor Whites and Access to Higher Education « Rortybomb

Ross Douthat on Poor Whites and Access to Higher Education « Rortybomb — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:38:24 +0000

[...] exactly the kind of state that could benefit from higher education workforce at the margin, just cut half a billion. UCal is cutting. Everyone is. I used to live across the street from The Farmhouse [...]

By: jeneria

jeneria — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:51:29 +0000

Two years ago, I interviewed for a TT job at Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, GA. One of the red flags that they kept waving was that they were considering going to a four day school week due to budget cuts. I decided that I didn't want to be in that kind of situation and took a non-TT job in the midwest. Some of my friends thought I was crazy for passing up tenure, but I do not regret my decision at all.

Americus is a super cute town, but it is literally in BFG.

By: Dark Brown Waffles › South Carolina Proposes Cutting Funding For The Disabled

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:52:28 +0000

[...] Meanwhile, Steve Spurrier, the state university's football coach, is making a couple of million dollars. But heaven forbid athletic departments get eliminated around the state as a money saving mechanism. Better to lay these sorts of cuts at the feet of people who can't fight back. More here: The Tough Choices Look Suspiciously Like Easy Ones. [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:55:44 +0000

Here in California, we've been hearing nonstop radio ads from Meg 'Ebay' Whitman for weeks now. Apparently, the problem of the state government not having enough money will be solved by – ready? – cutting taxes.

I'm starting to _hope_ that 12/21/12 turns out to be the end of time.

By: Cartmanne

Cartmanne — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:13:43 +0000

I think you are giving Mississippi way too much credit.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:54:32 +0000

Up north in SidneyCrosbystan, we await the new federal budget with a kind of resigned whimper. The opposition has been shouting for months about how irresponsible the Conservatives are with taxpayers' money, having turned a surplus into a massive deficit in a few short years (sound familiar?). And so now, the Cons will respond, reluctantly, with the slash-and-burn cuts to everything except defence that they've been wanting to do for decades, and that many of the same people did a decade ago on a smaller scale in Ontario.

Everything will be gutted, but those corporate tax cuts, and all the other massive tax cuts they introduced, no, those must stay, for pity's sake.

By: Desargues

Desargues — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:40:26 +0000

Cutting down on the "defense" budget may actually produce enough federal tax dollars to either address shortcomings in funding for education, infrastructure, and health, or tax people less, and allow states to tax them more — so that more tax dollars goes directly to local projects that help people, instead of keeping the House of Saud safe from its own people.

By: ts46064

ts46064 — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:16:54 +0000

@joe
I agree that we spend way too much on defense but on the issue of being taxed too much i have to disagree. We have some of the lowest tax rates in the industrialized world.
Now, if we were to trim our defense budget we would get more for our tax dollars which may negate any need for a tax increase or require a smaller increase.