Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 28, 2012, 07:57:30 PMDid they just accidentally their college football teams?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/27/michelle-ugenti-arizona-rep-justifies-tuition-hike_n_1304731.htmlQuoteAn Arizona House committee passed a bill last week that would require every student at a public college in the state, regardless of economic status, to pay a minimum of $2,000 in tuition.
As Think Progress noted, nearly 100 Arizona students attended the committee hearing to speak out against the bill, HB 2675, expressing concern that it would make it more difficult for many students to afford college. Rep. Michelle Ugenti (R-Scottsdale) responded bluntly in favor of the new measure: "Welcome to life."
This doesn't just mean subsidies would be hit. It also means that kids with full-ride scholarships would have to pay $2000 of their own money on top of the full tuition granted by the scholarship.
It does not raise the tuition itself, for people who are self-paying, with the exception that it would increase the minimum cost/semester to $2000.
We have the first outright "poor tax" in America.
The goal, obviously, is to prevent poor people from getting an education.