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Opinion: Let politicians know taxes are not for free tuition, says Morristown resident

Posted 1/13/17

To the Editor: Attention taxpayers: Light up the Albany switchboard and let your elected representatives know our hard earned money should not be used for “free tuition.” First, anytime a …

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Opinion: Let politicians know taxes are not for free tuition, says Morristown resident

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To the Editor:

Attention taxpayers: Light up the Albany switchboard and let your elected representatives know our hard earned money should not be used for “free tuition.” First, anytime a politician claims to be giving away free stuff you can count on a tax increase. Cuomo and Sanders are progressives. We know the socialist zebra, in an attempt to hide its stripes, is now known as progressives.

In an article from the Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal senior news producer Kelsey Harkness (go to dailysignal.com to read this story) she writes that, Richard Vedder, director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity and professor of economics at Ohio University called the proposal “extortionately inappropriate.”

Yes, you read that correct extortionately. In this taxpayer boondoggle, the Excelsior Scholarship, Cuomo is attempting to use, yet another, legislative process to extort money from the taxpayer to further the socialist utopia of government free stuff.

Here’s what happens when you incorporate the socialist agenda, eventually you run out of other peoples (taxpayer) money. Louisiana instated TOPS (Taylor Opportunity Program for Students) in 2000. In March of 2016 Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards (D) said due to historic budget shortfalls the state no longer had adequate money to fund the program. In the wake of the budget shortfall thousands of students received notice scholarship program would only cover 42% of tuition costs for 2017 (the end is near). Louisiana state government is running out of other people’s money.

The socialist utopia pushed by Cuomo is simply unsustainable and is bad public policy, period. Law enforcement tells us all the time of phone/online/mail scams and if it seems too good to be true it is. Don’t buy into the Excelsior Scholarship presented by scam artist Cuomo.

Harkness goes on to quote Vedder saying, “ You’re taking money from the general taxpaying public, including some low and middle income people and redistributing that to a group that will probably include a significant part of a somewhat more affluent population, it is certainly not a redistribution to the poor, it’s a redistribution to the middle class and fairly affluent middle class.”

This plan does absolutely nothing to address the problem issue of student loan debt and only exasperates the problem. Student loan debt is the responsibility of the student not the taxpayer. It’s called individual responsibility.

Why not go after the astronomical tuition rate colleges and universities charge? Why… it is because these institutions are more progressive liberal socialist than our government and progressive liberal socialist politicians will not go after their own.

The misguided redistribution of wealth is the centerpiece of the socialist utopia that leaves a free people beholden to a self-serving government that promises free stuff in order to squash a free people.

Light up the switchboard in Albany and hold Cuomo accountable for attempting to scam New York taxpayer’s, again.

Trent Porter

Morristown