http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/964075.html
Alaska Governor Sean Parnell is proposing a bill that will pay for a students schooling depending on grades (A=%100, B= %75, C=%50). I think this is bullshit. No one has the right to make you pay for another person’s college. And now while this is probably paid for by taxes from the oil companies and other corporation and not individuals, it’s still wrong. Taxation is theft, whether by a mugger in the street or a politician in DC. And what is a corporation but a group of individuals.
And the price of this?:
Parnell is proposing to pay for it by carving out $400 million of the state’s $8 billion Constitutional Budget Reserve Fund savings account as its own separate endowment, saying interest and investment profits from that would be used to pay for the scholarships. State Education Commissioner Larry LeDoux said it’s not clear how much the program would cost the state each year but he figures $20 million could be available annually for covering the costs of the scholarship program.
I would much rather struggle to pay for college and live off of ramen and live on a couch through my schooling than make others pay for my college.
-JD
“I would much rather struggle to pay for college and live off of ramen and live on a couch through my schooling than make others pay for my college.”
Good. Not many people walk their talk. It’s refreshing!
MWD
Thank you, Michael.
Wow! Actually some pissing on a Republican! A rarity on this website.
TS, I do not care if the person is a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Whatever. But if they support laws that involve taking from a group of people and giving to another, I will rip on them.
Not to sound like some Objectivist loony, but an Ayn Rand quote comes to mind: “I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. “