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Trump tells Treasury to review universities' tax exempt status

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by WillReadmore, Jul 10, 2020.

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  1. WillReadmore

    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    Yes, Obama insisted that people be treated equally in terms of being able to attend such institutions.

    Trump is saying that he hates what schools teach and thus wants to defund them.

    That is a VERY different issue. Trump is anti-science and anti-education. And, he wants the federal government to take action against educated thought.

    The government can not be allowed to control thought.
     
    WillReadmore, Jul 11, 2020
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No ****? Universities' endowment funds stand to lose a billion or two? My heart is ****ing bleeding... NOT!

    As for our children... how are they being targeted to know I want!
     
    Dutch, Jul 11, 2020
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    Life’s hard, any you weren’t promised nice ****. Get a better job?
     
    Yulee, Jul 11, 2020
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  4. Dutch

    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How about anti-social justice, anti-Liberalism, and anti-indoctrination? Why are you for all these things?
     
    Dutch, Jul 11, 2020
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  5. AmericanNationalist

    AmericanNationalist Well-Known Member

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    Are you kidding? US federal pell grants were attached directly to Common Core. But up is down in common sense word, as Zorro has pointed out.
     
    AmericanNationalist, Jul 11, 2020
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    They want to become even bigger rip off Indoctrination Centers.

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    Zorro, Jul 11, 2020
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    I want to defund them because they aren't federal institutions and the federal government has no business funding them in the first place. Trump is not anti-science or anti-education. He just hates that schools teach anti-American things just like I do.
     
    fmw, Jul 11, 2020
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  8. WillReadmore

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    Trump is attacking education because of what people who go to colleges and universities learn.

    He hates the content. He hates that medical experts who have higher education degress disagree with him.

    That's what he is targeting. He wants government control over what people learn, enforced by federal control of funding.

    And, that is obviously and profoundly unacceptable.

    Attacking the possibility of our children having unfettered access to education is clearly a direct assault on those children.
     
    WillReadmore, Jul 11, 2020
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    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    You are going to have to do better than that - both in terms of what you are worried about and in terms of how you want to go about making any change you want to make.
     
    WillReadmore, Jul 11, 2020
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    Actually, the President was very clear about what he was saying on the July 4th holiday. This is a move against the 'knowledge' and 'education' that has formented 'police brutality' that is in reality, civilian brutality against other civilians.
     
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  11. WillReadmore

    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    You totally missed what was being discussed.

    Common core is not an issue of content - it is an issue of education methodology. AND, it has nothing to do with higher eucation, which is what Trump has demanded to be investigated.

    Trump is attacking what it is that is taught in higher education.

    His objections stem from the fact that his ideas so often get refuted.
     
    WillReadmore, Jul 11, 2020
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    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    What's your point?

    Trump's ideas on policing are clearly founded in ignorance. And yes, thats undoubtedly one of the areas where he hates for his ideas to be refuted.
     
    WillReadmore, Jul 11, 2020
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    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    No, he is in fact anti-education. There isn't any question about that.

    He hates medical science, for example.

    Science isn't anti-American.
     
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    Well on Nov 3rd, you get the opportunity to vote out the big bad evil Trump and save the country from his wicked ways so, I hope it works out.
     
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  15. WillReadmore

    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    It would be better if we worked it out now.

    Waiting for mid January for the possibility of wokring on change is NOT sufficient.

    That's half a year away! And, if Biden held the reings at that point, he certainly could not make any instant change, as change takes time.

    We need action today.
     
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    BINGO! ****ing A! A post of the month!

    I’m with the President on this one!
     
    Dutch, Jul 11, 2020
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    Dutch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    No I don’t have to do better. Everyone knows what social justice is and everyone knows most of our higher educators are leftist Liberals. And everyone knows why Liberal studies called Liberal studies. Their main product is lefties Liberals
     
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  18. WillReadmore

    WillReadmore Well-Known Member

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    Let's remember that unfettered education IS leftist.

    And, liberal arts merely refers to that which isn't vocational or technical.

    One can get a bachelors or masters of arts degree in pretty much every topic available at the university level.

    Is it possible that you are just averse to being educated in the humanities?
     
    WillReadmore, Jul 11, 2020
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    Bookmarked for Nov. 4th.
     
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    so why did Trump release guidelines telling all the States to shutdown? was Trump wrong to do so?
     
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    agree... very bad
     
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    He didn't. The CDC did and the governors made the call. Nobody knows what to do. Open up everything and let the cards fall where they may.
     
    Rush_is_Right, Jul 11, 2020
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    FreshAir Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    nope, Trump did, that is why they are called "The President's CoronaVirus Guidelines for America"

    trump 30 days

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    "*** In states with evidence of community transmission, bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed."

    "The President's CoronaVirus Guidelines for America"

    "30 days to slow the spread"

    https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/03.16.20_coronavirus-guidance_8.5x11_315PM.pdf
     
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    Private colleges are businesses why should they be tax exempt especially if they are violating the 501C-3 status they are hiding behind?
     
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    The vast majority are not for profit entities. There is zero eidence of abuse of their standing. - like there IS for churches.

    And, you are not admitting what Trump has STATED is motivating him.
     
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