I used to do legal research at their Sterling Memorial Law Library. Some who worked there well knew that I was a right-winger and not directly related to Yale but no one objected to my using that library.
I met my wife when she was a Yale undergraduate (converted to Catholicism and to conservatism as a Yale student as many have been contrary to popular fears. I met and associated with John Bolton when he was a Yale undergraduate and law student and a LOT of other significant conservatives who are less famous.
I know of no one who claims to have become a conservative by association with Wang or any other business corporation. I know many who became conservatives because of the clash of ideas at Yale.
The proponent of this idea of taxing Yale is New Haven State Senator and Senate President Martin Looney, a leftist to the core. He is a stumbling, bumbling human bobble head whose prominence says much more about Connecticut's current degeneracy than does even a disgrace like Malloy.
Looney is an enemy of permanent things, an enemy of Western Civilization, yet another "Catholic" cheerleader for the slaughter of innocent babies, for perversion posing as "marriage" and other abominations (not unlike Malloy). OTOH, on that rare occasion when Malloy rises to defense of Yale and Western Civilization, even Malloy ought not to be bashed for it.
You are in Massachusetts apparently. Harvard plays a similar role there as does Dartmouth in New Hampshire, probably Brown in Rhode Island, Columbia in New York. I am less familiar with the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell. Trump attended the Wharton School of Finance at Penn, Ann Coulter attended Cornell, Laura Ingraham and Dinesh D'Souza attended Dartmouth, Bobby Jindal attended Brown. Taxing such great universities (whatever their failings) is an act of barbarism.
“Taxing such great universities (whatever their failings) is an act of barbarism”
You doth protest too much. It is also easy to become a permanent institution when you are free of the burdens of taxation. Harvard, Yale et al could easily absorb a tax. Heck all of their professors push and vote for the increase of taxes on a daily basis. Harvard has an endowment of $40 Billion. Yale has a $25 Billion endowment. They don’t even pay property tax. You greatly exaggerate the worth of Yale and diminish the philanthropy of Wang. I say the institutions that push for more socialism should start spreading the wealth. Why am I paying more in taxes than Yale? My contributions to science and patents for medical devices should at least warrant a tax free life on par with Yale. I am even passing on my wisdom to my children as well as volunteering my time for many years to youth sports. Treat me like Yale!!