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"Go Fund Me" charges 10%...so I guess we're getting off easy...by 1%
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PY: Yeah, except that most out of state workers are poorly compensated as most work in either the fish processing or services industries both mostly minimum/low wage jobs. Please, a head tax that goes to the tourist industry not the state coffers. Very little visitor/tourist monies go to the state even though they u...
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Why, under this new format for commenting, I have to answers 3-5 other questions not related to subject that I am commenting on?
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Hey Legiskature, I personally think these people make a huge amount of money and certainly we should never be expected to compete with those NY or Boston hedge funds or investment firms. Salaries there are SO out of skew it's absurd. Good for those guys for building their resumes to get their new positions and hopefull...
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Kathleen's comment of course doesn't apply to our indigenous brothers and sisters who have lived here for 20,000 years. Their homes, families, and food sources remain in place right here.
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There are so many things wrong with this op-ed, it's hard to know where to begin. The example of a pilot who lives in Oregon but is based in Anchorage for work is silly. Oregon has the highest income tax in the country, so it would behoove that pilot to switch his residency to Alaska. The income tax the governor prop...
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Could it be these talented investment managers left because the trustees made Angela Rodell their boss? Asking for a friend.
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Your earlier comment was a good explanation. However, when you write "it only covers half" you make me think 14% is a remarkably high administrative cost.
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Thank you for you civil reply. Florida has no taxes for a senior. There are no capital gains tax for the sale of my Alaska home. One time moving expenses will be spread over many more years. I hope! One lost PFD which I suspect will be reduced in effort to produce state revenues. And a comparable home will be nearly ha...
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Actually, I am opposed to a sales tax that is not inclusive of services and any such tax would not have a limit. If such a tax , usually called a VAT or GST, does have exclusions or limits, it would favor the wealthy and harms the poor. When there are no limits or exclusions the tax rate can be very low and therefore b...
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FYI - This is the definition of political correctness: "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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Safe bet they'll 'find' the money to avoid layoffs. It's the same game the ASD plays, scream layoffs & program cuts when your cash cow is threatened.
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That is the problem with simple statements, my post like yours is short on information and the ideas it is referring too! In no way do I go along with Marx's!
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I know you are being sarcastic, but there are some who would, in fact, advocate your comment. That's why these leeches on society keep walking around among us and committing crimes.
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Thank you, John.
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The 300 are at UAF but not all employees are in Fairbanks. There are employees in each of the Western Alaska hubs. Quite a few of those are included in those being reduced or eliminated. I know this for a fact.
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True, then after the elections they with bring in all the taxes!
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"Pravda ADN" LMAO! And you're spot on.
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There seems to be no end to demand for more! Power, money, social status, etc. I guess my question is, 'how much is enough'? Most Alaskan's could live very well on $400,000 annual salary. How does it ever come to the point of needing more when what you have is far and above most anyone else? A comment below mentioned t...
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Vote Trump. He will build the road. It will be wide, and it will be beautiful.
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No, this is happening and already in motion. I know this personally.
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While media may portray this as our supposedly benevolent legislators adjusting the minimum wage for certain regions to compensate for local costs of living, I’m more inclined to believe that politicians are pandering to voters in districts that disproportionately support the Democrat Party. Opponents of this law coul...
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All that money paid to Pete Kelly as UAF's Lobbyist, sure has paid off....HA!
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They prohibited men with deep seated homosexual tendencies from the Priesthood. Maybe too late but it seems to be working.
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I think he may be referring to the fact that Hillside doesn't get patrolled and has minimal emergency services. Though that was over 10 years ago since I lived up there.... Or he really meant it, which is an ignorant thing to say. who knows.
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"In Juneau, lawmakers are grappling with how to fix a state budget deficit topping $4 billion, weighing cuts and new streams of revenue." I have not heard even one utterance concerning new streams of revenue. Only cuts designed to hurt the most vulnerable of us have come down
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It's going to be hard to organize anything with neighbors with half the town now thinking they have to arm themselves and draw down on anyone who rings their doorbell. I'd rather leave those people to stew in their own fear and paranoia than try to organize anything with them...
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The article states: "the cost of the tests, which can reach $1,300 apiece..."
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The other funds needed to run the program are covered by donations from private corporations and grants from groups like the Rasmuson Foundation. The costs to run the program include a 4 month statewide marketing campaign, training seminars for the participating nonprofits, maintenance and upgrades for two websites, ...
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Ahhh an old fan of reefer madness, you must be. Ignorance must surely be blissful for you.
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What's stopping a judge from setting bail so prohibitively high that no one can bail them out, though?
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Volcanoes popping off all around the "Ring of Fire", ya think the ground might do a little dance too?
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It will be HUUGE!
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The entire university system needs a careful audit to determine where efficiency can be gained and identify wasteful or non-productive spending practices. As an example, I just learned that a high school student living outside of Chicago, Ill. was accepted at the University of Alaska Southeast. Big surprise as it is ...
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Bob, you're a nice person, that much is clear. I'm sure you know that many of us have struggled with relationships and many have struggled with drugs. Few of us go off and shoot people. I have no sympathy for this guy and I don't judge anyone who feels the same towards him or worse. Life is hard for almost everyone, ...
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A strange comment, Charles. Not a bad one, mind you but it did make me laugh instantly! I never thought of an attorney being a Marine. I guess they are in the JAG office though. It's just a personal thing about lawyers that are taught to lie. It's their job, so why do we have so much faith in them? I do commend him on ...
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How is it set up to confuse people? You follow the steps & enter the same information as on a paper application. Oh wait, it's a conspiracy to trip people up so they won't get a PFD. The idiots who got booted by the system at midnight on the deadline have nobody to blame but themselves.
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The 7% fee goes to the Alaska Community Foundation who manages the program and works with the participating nonprofits. The costs to run the program include a 4 month statewide marketing campaign, training seminars for the participating nonprofits, maintenance and upgrades for two websites, application processing, c...
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Good article. Good data. But we'll never know the economic impact of the high-achieving students who chose to stay in Alaska because the legislature adopted a budget amendment to forbid accepting any more federal funding (not state funding, mind you) for the ANSWERS database, which was built to provide educators and ...
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Bhahaha!
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Olive, the other reindeer?
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What a bunch of crap and the product of poor teaching of the constitution. The First Amendment doesn't protect only those that pay taxes. If paying taxes were a criteria, half of you on the ADN would be silent. Perhaps we should go back to only property owners have a vote. That would end progressivism pretty quickly...
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An economic study has determined that there is less snow this winter.
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I agree with you. But they always seem to find a way out and return to their old ways to hurt more people. At least death is final.
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The South King of Prussia Holocausters are not universally loved.
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Are you suggesting that other DNA testing -- from material gathered in the investigation of burglaries, car thefts, assaults and killings -- is also not worth the expense when other evidence seems to outweigh your assumed cost-benefit analysis? Or would you be demanding that all the evidence be carefully tested and exa...
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If this is true, doesn't it fly in the face of abolishing the scholarship program for own own graduating high school students? At least we'll know they graduated. There is a lot of inefficiency throughout our state government but this pushes the envelope a bit! We generally don't hear of these sort of things. I'll make...
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Mark: You are ever-so-right. I taught in Junction City during the '70s and early '80s, before educational "decision makers" had the bright idea that "everyone needed to be ready to go to college" when they graduated from high school. At that time JC had fantastic vocational programs: carpentry, automotive, electrical...
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That's it!! Use Yosemite Sam or Fred Flinstone. White guys will be forever mocked.
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I love it when liberals are clueless to what hate means .
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I wonder about all of the people who work, but do not live in Alaska. They take their money out of our economy. Might there be a way to tax that? I just don't think the voters in this state will ever go along with an income tax.
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I don't know whats the big deal,I didn't see any wildlife in the pic.
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You're using a straw man logical fallacy. I never postulated that we could get away without fossil fuel. You are suggesting that I am going to that extreme. In doing so, you've neglected the substance of my argument. I assume you have no reply to those concerns. Second, having less reliance on the car is not turning Eu...
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they did it to themselves sometime around the 13th Century, for some reason changed it in to a "Boys Club" and we know what kind of problems that led to.
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It was a sarcastic comment that I somewhat regretted after writing it. Sen. French was never in the Marine Corps. He was enrolled briefly in Marine PLC in college and tried to use that brief time when affiliated (barely) with the Corps as "military experience (" I was in the Marine Corps") during several of his campaig...
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"He said he took on the issue to "protect the rights of the non-smoker, save lives and reduce the staggering health costs of secondhand exposure to tobacco use." Please tell me what the "staggering costs of second-hand smoking" is in Alaska? I would like some figures, Senator Micciche, before you tell us what vices are...
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And the only connection. By definition the proposed King Cove to Cold Bay road would not be within the refuge as the lands underlying the road would be exchanged for state and corporation lands that would be added to the refuge. Adding more than 40,000 acres of designated wilderness to the NWR system would more than ...
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You do not waive your first Amendment rights to open a business, nor should you. Their application is different. Government must show a compelling government interest to restrict someone's rights not just state they don't have any. The right to have a gay wedding anywhere you please should not take precedence over ...
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Perhaps the decline reflects folks starting to move out as the jobs aren't here anymore. One of the other articles states that the U of A will cut at least 300 jobs. It has started the 1980's again.
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All true and good reasons to leave...don't let the door hit your backside.
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It's not really luck. It's just typical. Most cases are dismissed, plea bargained or dealt with through some form of pre-trial diversion. Only a small percentage make it to trial on the original charge. I agree with you on charging. Almost every shooting that doesn't result in death gets charged as an assault in Alas...
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My opinion one can pray anywhere even if it is in silence.
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I'd like to hear from the Alaska ACLU on this one. My question for them--would you sue the Catholic Church of Alaska for refusing to allow a same sex couple to be married in a chapel or on property owned by the Catholic Church? The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states must recognize same-sex marriages, not that churc...
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There have been churches that have been forced to accommodate gay weddings because they have opened up their buildings to other faiths. So YES they have something to worry about
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Wow... an income tax draws "the costs from those who have enjoyed the fruits of the system and are most able to pay"? You imply those who would pay an income tax have been exploiting the "system" by making more money. That's a twisted way to look at it. What about thinking this way: People make their own way, making go...
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This is not surprising at all. As a matter of fact, I often wondered why it takes so long for people to recognize these things. Some of our indigenous people, as we like to call them, came from other lands across the oceans. A lot of the NW Tribes originated from Polynesia and some are Athabaskan like the Navajo. Other...
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If you think LGBT people are not vulnerable to abuse or often treated as outcasts, you're missing facts occurring in your own neighborhood.
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That goes for you too masked caper, BO.
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Excellent letters today.
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Glad to see that this guy was caught. It's not smart to open a door unarmed in the world we live in today.
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I think my black friends in my senior age group can rummage through their basements and find one for you to copy and hand out to business's who want to discriminate against a specific class of people.
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And same will happen if taxes are instituted. It will be especially easy once the taxation structure is back in place. Nobody is going to support a massive income tax right off, so they want to start with a "small" income tax, as Walker calls it. No, once taxation starts -- especially income tax -- it will be steadily ...
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Agree Nels. When the Majority Caucus of the Legislature can burn $32 million on a luxury office with glass elevators, they have no business trying to raid my wallet to cover up for their outrageous spending.
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No more than the public school system. A safe haven and bastion of child rape. No where did they condone it. Mishandled it, yes. Didn't believe it happened YES. Condoned it absolutely not. Absolutely nothing different happened in the public school system. They assumed early accusations were false. They moved teac...
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Their food sources might still be here but there are now too many of them to live off it, if they ever truly returned to that sort of lifestyle.
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Well done, Dermot. I really wish you'd run for office, though the Taj Mahawker seems to suck out any commonsense that enters it's golden doors.
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Thank god! The Republicans have voted to spend $32.5 million dollars for their ANC LIO, the Glass Palace. The money has to come from somewhere. Why not the U?
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I'm a lefty (not a registered Democrat though) but I don't feel that way. I'm fine with taxes as long as they are spent responsibly, which the Alaska legislature has repeatedly shown they don't have the capacity to do, so I'm against taxing the people of Alaska. I'm all for taxing the oil companies, tour companies, and...
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Mr Miller, your kind of thinking will destroy Alaska! Our fish are our way of life...there is not ONE example of a mine like Pebble not destroying the environment and ruining the water. Why should their mine ruin the lives of thousands of Alaskans so that a few people, not even Americans get rich? They will ship it in ...
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One solution is to replace the incumbents that got us into this mess. Such as with their "need" for a luxury office tower with glass elevators.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/senator-french-cares-about-you-think-again Good April fools article
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Has Kathleen ever been to Alaska? Has that ever been determined? Does she lack the basic understanding about people being born here and having family here? So bizarre.
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Wildly speculative and not supported by results of previous minimum wage increases in Oregon and around the country. What is real is that a whole lot of people are being victimized by low wages and high rents. A job that doesn't pay a living wage is useless. This is a working class vs. middle class issue. Of course the...
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Are you serious??? If you are referring to gays and sinners Jesus wanted them to "Sin no more" He didn't ignore their sin. He helped them and encouraged them to leave their life of sin. The same exact thing the church is doing. Jesus wouldn't have presided over a gay wedding, that's for sure.
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I agree in general. With a sales tax, everyone is contributing. The well-off will still pay more because they buy more goods and services. Practically speaking however I believe food and medicine should be exempted. Many other states already do this, such as Washington.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/senator-french-cares-about-you-think-again
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If somebody doesn't want my business I'll just put on my big boy pants and find one that does. I'm not going to cry discrimination and find a lawyer. I'm kind of thick skinned that way though.
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Yep, Gegonos, that's defending him alright.
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Many cruise companies boycott communities that implement the cruise head tax. In Juneau, they pay the tax but require that the money be put towards things that benefit the cruise companies, like infrastructure for excursions, etc. It's a racket and it's time for those cruise companies and their floating cesspools to p...
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http://www.examiner.com/article/senator-french-cares-about-you-think-again
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I think John Oliver summed up your argument pretty well right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfgSEwjAeno
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Cost of housing will go down this coming winter, as more people leave the state. The cost of gasoline, however, is creeping back up at a fairly quick rate. Maybe the state wants to get as much tax from sales as the folks fill up the u-haul trucks and head South. When enough people leave, our budget will become balanced...
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So, turn them in for fraud and see how far you get. I really wish you would, Bob, and you have quite a few thousand witnesses.
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What a surprise, a life-long public sector-ite that has lived off the backs of other peoples' hard work ... wants a loose-goosey tax cap to ensure a unfettered flow of taxpayer cash to local government. Just go away Ms Angvik. And take Mayor Begich 2.0 with you. Vote YES.
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OK. Let's outlaw all sport hunting and fishing. Recreational travel into wilderness areas could also be stopped. Remove all new settlers from rural Alaska and outlaw travel into the Bush. Stop requiring Native communities to maintain permanent settlements. Definitely stop giving away millions of salmon every year to s...
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Indeed this is a misleading talking point of those pushing for an income tax. They keep saying, "OH you can deduct it from your federal income taxes!" which is simply an outright lie since most people do no not itemize. When these guys say that, it instantly makes their slant apparent... if they are going to say that t...
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So the Catholics, Baptists, and certain other religions want a free pass to discriminate against same sex marriages? What's next, mixed race couples? Maybe people with physical or mental issues? You religious nut jobs make me worry about this country.
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I recommend not using PFD loan. Where is all that money being paid by the students going? Some are paying tremendous amounts for each semester. Get rid of fluff. Down size ego salaries of tenured staff. These students are being buried under debt and colleges think they deserve more? They are not Ivy League. Just a big ...
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Agree! I would not be surprised if our legislators were planning to build some sort of income tax exemption for themselves into the laws.
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I think it shows just how amoral we have become when 3 percent set the agenda for the rest of us, I long for the days when closet doors were closed.
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