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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Isn't this kind of on the Republicans who added a tax on college endowments to help pay for their corporate tax cuts?
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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and yet, it wasn't. i'm not a Sanders fan, but it seems like you're giving republicans credit for their intentions, and judging Sanders by unintended consequences.
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Where is your evidence for this assertion?
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Harvard, Princeton, etc. offer grants to students with family incomes below a certain threshold. The huge tuition is only charged to those who can afford it.
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If your tweet requires a response to a commenter that includes the phrase "to be fair", you probably should have worded your initial tweet more carefully. Especially if you work for the
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