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Rick Perry supports 'freezing' college tuition
Reporter News ^ | 09/25/2012

Posted on 09/25/2012 2:14:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/25/2012 2:14:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Because Richard Milhaus Nixon's price freezes worked out so well.
2 posted on 09/25/2012 2:14:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Actually, I think this is a great idea. It’s not that I support price controls, or any government involvement in setting consumer prices. However, they are already doing this to other sectors of the economy (e.g. health care), and so why not do it to universities, and give the liberal faculty and administrators a sense of what the policies they support feel like when they are inflicted upon them.


3 posted on 09/25/2012 2:20:23 PM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
It is a State University. Not really free-market.

/johnny

4 posted on 09/25/2012 2:23:35 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: SeekAndFind
Finally, some politician looking at the cost of college instead of the price, somebody concerned with the value and not just lending gullible kids money for crap. Who knows, maybe some day colleges will have to respond to market forces, get efficient, and get concerned with quality.
5 posted on 09/25/2012 2:24:55 PM PDT by Old North State
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To: pieceofthepuzzle
Actually, I think this is a great idea. It’s not that I support price controls, or any government involvement in setting consumer prices. However, they are already doing this to other sectors of the economy (e.g. health care), and so why not do it to universities, and give the liberal faculty and administrators a sense of what the policies they support feel like when they are inflicted upon them.

I got my latest degree through the University of Phoenix. The per class tuition remained the same as long as I did not take more than a single class sequence break. If you took a longer break, then you had to pay whatever the new rate was at the time you started up again.

6 posted on 09/25/2012 2:27:14 PM PDT by CMAC51
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To: SeekAndFind

How about freezing the state’s (huge) expenditures on the subsidized universities, including a freeze on the compensation of every one of the featherbedded vice presidents, associate deans, provosts, etc., etc.? The problem is spending, not revenue.


7 posted on 09/25/2012 2:27:19 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: SeekAndFind

It would not be a bad idea provided the public colleges were able to estimate the costs for the entire 4 years factoring in inflation and charge the student a level tuition for the 4 years.The student would be paying a little more the first year or two to have the guarantee of level payments over the 4 years. I would not consider this a price freeze because projected inflationary cost increases are factored into the level plan. However if he is just talking about freezing tuition at current rates and having the taxpayer eat the increased costs in the future while tuition revenue is frozen, I would be against it.


8 posted on 09/25/2012 2:30:15 PM PDT by chuckee
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His propensity to spout populist drivel is one reason I’ve never liked this guy very much.


9 posted on 09/25/2012 2:39:37 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

It sounds like you are in favor of price controls.

I mean, it works so well in healthcare...

At least I think Perry is only talking about state schools, which is within the state’s range of responsibilities. (I’ll leave aside the question of whether state schools are necessary at this point.)


10 posted on 09/25/2012 2:42:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course, that 30M in Texas taxpayer dollars earmarked for illegals to tap into for college tuition remains Rick’s sacred cow not to be touched.


11 posted on 09/25/2012 2:43:52 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Conservatism didn't magically show up in Romney's heart in 2012. You can't force what isn't in you.)
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Of course, that 30M in Texas taxpayer dollars earmarked for illegals to tap into for college tuition remains Rick’s sacred cow not to be touched.

30M or $1, spending/giving taxpayer funded subsidies to ILLEGAL aliens is wrong. But, as we know, RINO Rick is all for it.

The man is a fraud.

12 posted on 09/25/2012 2:49:05 PM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance." - Barack Hussein Obama - Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009.)
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Sweet, illegal aliens as well could lock their prices now for Texas in state tution. Plan ahead illegals, this might work.


13 posted on 09/25/2012 2:49:05 PM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

My suggestion would be to freeze all instructors, all professors, and all university professionals at their current pay scale for three years as a minimum. After that three-year period, I’m limit all pay raises to a maximum of two percent every two years.


14 posted on 09/25/2012 2:50:08 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: SeekAndFind

UT San Antonio - Tuition and fees (lots of fees)
2008 - ~$5000/year
2012 - Current price $4800 for one semester (6 months)
*Tuition has nearly doubled in 4 years. That is nuts.


15 posted on 09/25/2012 2:50:58 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

“they are already doing this to other sectors of the economy”

That’s the same argument I posed to myself when I was a kid. “You’re already out past curfew; might as well stay out all night. Can’t get more in trouble, can you?”

Yes. You can.


16 posted on 09/25/2012 2:53:31 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Buckeye McFrog

And then if the college tuition bubble collapses and tuition goes down, new students will be “underwater” on their tuition and Obama can step in to lower their principal.


17 posted on 09/25/2012 2:55:50 PM PDT by JediJones (KARL ROVE: "And remember, this year, no one is seriously talking about ending abortion.")
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To: JRandomFreeper

“It is a State University. Not really free-market”

So we should make it less free? Or, to put that a other way, so much of the cost is hidden from the consumer and pushed ofttimes other parties that it doesn’t matter whether we hide any more? Why, on earth?


18 posted on 09/25/2012 2:57:44 PM PDT by Tublecane
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Will we also “freeze” the pay and benefits and costs of the colleges? Or does he expect the soak the taxpayers for the difference??


19 posted on 09/25/2012 2:59:00 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: pepsionice

And how do you freeze all of the operating costs, e.g., utilities, garbage collection, maintenance, etc. The University of Texas in Austin has about 40,000 students. Your are running what amounts to a small city.


20 posted on 09/25/2012 3:07:23 PM PDT by kabar
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