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Hmm... I just read the Powell memo... can't identify the part this tweet is referring to. Could only find a line about education being taxpayer funded. Some help? Definitely a weird doc though. Amazing how completely the plan succeeded. billmoyers.com/wp-content/upl
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Seems worth mentioning that one part of the strategy laid out in the Powell memo in the 1970s was to make college so expensive that students would graduate in so much debt they’d be less likely to work against corporate interests.
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This bit is the closest I found. Maybe I'm not an attentive reader, but I didn't find anything that says what the tweet claims, and the whole memo has a tone of injured victimhood and fairly careful language. Maybe the strategy was laid out in further events triggered by this?
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I'm sympathetic to the thrust of the argument, but it's kinda irresponsible to be throwing out unsupported claims of this sort into this fraught environment... basically oil on a fire
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There's a qualitative difference in both intent and substance though, between "let's cut tax support for universities" and "let's make college so expensive we create a system of debt bondage that won't dare rebel against corporations" ...
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I just see zero evidence of the kind of conspiracy the tweet suggests. In fact, the weak mechanisms suggested (speaker bureau, advertising, "equal time") are precisely the kind of brute-force thing business people think of when they *can't* think of an elegant leveraged strategy
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I'd guess the tax cutting was part of very generic cut social/boost military vs. boost social/cut military type partisan generic tax postures feeding into the natural dynamics of the baumol cost disease effect... "corporations" tend to be extremely dumb on strategy outside core
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