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[Xithras]

68. I was a prof for many years.

While a handful of senior tenured professors teaching a handful of disciplines may make that kind of money, the overwhelming majority of college professors can only dream about having paychecks like those. Hell, I quit teaching and got a "real job" myself because I couldn't financially make it work anymore. Excessive pay arguments using cherry picked wages don't hold up under scrutiny. The increased costs imposed by the small number of people making that kind of money is a tiny part of a colleges overall budget, and doesn't significantly impact tuition costs.

And, out of curiosity, how much do you think a PhD SHOULD make? What is a "fair wage" for people responsible for educating the next generation of doctors, engineers, and even lawyers who will be running our nation in the years to come? Do you think their unions should be stripped of ALL powers to negotiate wages?

Oh, and student housing is typically funded through loans that are repaid by student housing fees, and not by a college or universities general budget. While colleges do occasionally need to fully fund freshman housing costs, it's a rare and infrequent event.


FWIW, I was attacking your idea, not you. Your idea WOULD provide Republicans with a simple way to shut down the public universities. They wouldn't have to financially gut the schools to shut them down, they'd only have to cut the budgets enough to force a tuition increase exceeding inflation. Your plan would do the rest of the work for them. I'm not going to apologize for pointing out a very real flaw in your suggestion.