Isn't this kind of on the Republicans who added a tax on college endowments to help pay for their corporate tax cuts?
Congratulations @BernieSanders, you used a Byrd Rule challenge to make sure a luxury tax hits the endowment of Berea College, which offers free tuition to poor families sending their first children to college.
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To be fair, that policy was supposed to be aimed surgically at universities like Harvard with massive endowments that still charge huge tuition. It was to induce them to use their endowments to lower tuition costs.
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I haven't delved that deep into this but seemed less than surgical based on what colleges were caught up in the list.
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Colleges on the list were in there specifically, if not by name, but because GOP backroom deals designed to target specific colleges. If one of them gets anti-preferential treatment due to obscure rules, it's just more proof that the bill should have been done in an open process.
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He didn't vote for the bill. This is on those who did.
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I don't think this tweet means what you think it means.pic.twitter.com/aqm7UkKBhl
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He voted against the bill. The republicans are the ones that voted to tax it.
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I’m not a Bernie fan in the least but I do believe he did not vote for this obscene heist on America
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Us keeping more of our own money = "obscene heist." Heist being the LWTOD, Left Wing Talking Point of the Day.
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Let’s be clear. Republicans could have rewritten the provision or taken it out. They didn’t, and they voted for it. Bernie voted against it.
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Nope. Huh uh. Republicans can't blame one iota of this on Democrats.
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I think your blame is misplaced
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Well the Sanders family is all about screwing over colleges.
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Typical shortsighted Bernie behavior.
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He voted against it lmao
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The exemption that was struck down (because it violated the rules, not cuz Bernie didn't like it) was a special interest carve-out for: A. A Christian college B. A college in
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But remember what his wife did?
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