Elite Colleges "Blind-sided" by Perceptions of Elitism

[Pokesan]

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[JurisDictum]

The doubling of the standard deduction under the plan would lead to far fewer taxpayers choosing to itemize their taxes, meaning they wouldn’t be able to take advantage of the deduction for charitable giving. In other words, fewer people would get a tax break for making a gift to a university or other nonprofit organization.

That means some colleges are making an urgent push to connect with donors before the end of the year, warning that their ability to take advantage of the charitable deduction may go away next year under other provisions in the tax bill.

Boom -- suck it Harvard!

This is got to be my favorite part of the tax bill. In fact -- out of all the tax bills I hated -- this might be the best. At least there is some actual change taking place in the structure of taxes...

I just hope we can keep it going after Trump. It's all about making sure we never elect another corporate Democrat. IDK WTF Republicans are going to do without Trump...go back to Rubio and Bush LOL!

Mike Fitts, president of Tulane University, a private university in New Orleans that would not be hit with the endowment tax, said he nonetheless thinks it "will ultimately create a precedent and lead to taxation of nonprofits."

"I understand we have views about 'the rich.' ... The difference here is endowments are not wealth for individuals. They're wealth for an institution and a cause," Fitts said. "Where will that principle lead?"

I bring you the University version of the: "we'll just pass tax on to the customer" argument.

[Patriam1066]

If you really wanna get pissed, look at who defaults on their student loans or rides them out beyond 30 years

Hint: it's doctors and lawyers

Especially aggravating because I paid my daughter's $24k a year med school tuition

[JurisDictum]

Anyone who has outstanding student loans is advised to pay on them as little as possible for as long as they can. And keep all records of payment.

The political climate is rife with loan forgiveness. We are basically just waiting on a Democrat swing.

Edit:

The responsible way to do loan forgiveness would probably involve a bill that put stricter guidelines on who gets loans for what for how long. We also need to get schools to open their books and do some Marxist financial analysis (this is what they are actually afraid of whether you believe it or not...not the Trump people).

We know they are using poor kids to fund buildings to attract more rich kids and what they are convincing themselves is a virtuous cycle. But that isn't how it works. Once a campus attracts wealth -- the poor are the first to be shut out. Most the time it doesn't even work however, and they just waste poor kids money. That's the problem with experts -- a great deal of them are really corporate frauds with no ability to think for themselves. So mid tier universities get stuck with the bozo planners.

[skarlorn]

Originally Posted by Patriam1066 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If you really wanna get pissed, look at who defaults on their student loans or rides them out beyond 30 years

Hint: it's doctors and lawyers

Especially aggravating because I paid my daughter's $24k a year med school tuition

Ya dude also Psychology PhDs. Many of them basically plan on defaulting from the get go. PATHETIC

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by skarlorn [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Ya dude also Psychology PhDs. Many of them basically plan on defaulting from the get go. PATHETIC

All you have to do is hire a god damn billing service, rent an office and listen to people at that point...that's a waste of PHD effort if you can't even drive that one home.

Edit: I just decided I'm going to switch careers to psychologist (PhD path). J/k but that's how easy it is. I could just do it in 4 years and make hundreds and hour. You just need to know how to do research and take few tests. A PhD psych program will probably take any BA/BS degree and background.

[Rader]

And all of this feedback is supposed to give me confidence in the US government? LOL

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by JurisDictum [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

All you have to do is hire a god damn billing service, rent an office and listen to people at that point...that's a waste of PHD effort if you can't even drive that one home.

Edit: I just decided I'm going to switch careers to psychologist (PhD path). J/k but that's how easy it is. I could just do it in 4 years and make hundreds and hour. You just need to know how to do research and take few tests. A PhD psych program will probably take any BA/BS degree and background.

you're an idiot with no actual understanding of higher education, economics, or human behavior.

you've clearly never actually gone through any meaningful educational program and you've reduced higher education to the accumulation of a piece of paper that says you are qualified to do work that any fool who bought the "idiot's guide to something" book could have done with a little effort without any "degree" needed.

if you've never had an education --- or even worse, resent people who do --- of course you don't see its value. you don't know how to see it.

harvard, yale, the other tier 1 schools and programs have produced actual american and world leaders in their fields. not just elites at a country club. real education doing real work in the world that our country benefits from. put down the glue and go back to school.

[JurisDictum]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

you're an idiot with no actual understanding of higher education, economics, or human behavior.

you've clearly never actually gone through any meaningful educational program and you've reduced higher education to the accumulation of a piece of paper that says you are qualified to do work that any fool who bought the "idiot's guide to something" book could have done with a little effort without any "degree" needed.

if you've never had an education --- or even worse, resent people who do --- of course you don't see its value. you don't know how to see it.

harvard, yale, the other tier 1 schools and programs have produced actual american and world leaders in their fields. not just elites at a country club. real education doing real work in the world that our country benefits from. put down the glue and go back to school.

That's not what we call an argument, dumb shit. But good job showing off how intellectually immature you are.

[skarlorn]

i personally enjoyed fastboy21's extremely personal assumption based insultfest and agree with the sentiment that elitism in competitive environments can be good.

not to say I agree with what he said about you jd , just that it was well written cyber bullying and that's like fine wine 2 me