You Have GOT to be Kidding Me (Sadly They’re Not)
Posted by The Asian Badger on August 16, 2007
THURSDAY, Aug. 16, 2007, 10:16 a.m.
By Steve Walters
Legislators OK Minnesota tuition pact
Madison – Wisconsin legislators today approved a new college tuition reciprocity agreement with Minnesota, continuing a pact used last year by almost 27,000 students from both states.
The new pact was approved, 15-1, by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
A new arrangement had to be negotiated after Minnesota officials balked at continuing the old system, complaining that their colleges and universities were losing money. Last year, 14,453 Minnesota students enrolled in Wisconsin colleges and universities, and 12,542 Wisconsin students enrolled in Minnesota schools.
Under the new deal, Wisconsin will make a payment of about $1.3 million by mid-2009 to cover the difference in tuition between the two states. When the new agreement is fully implemented, Wisconsin will pay an estimated $10.4 million to Minnesota schools in the 2011-’12 school year.
Legislators whose districts border Minnesota praised the new deal, saying it would make sure that a successful program continues.
When Wisconsin students enroll in Minnesota colleges and universities, it saves Wisconsin taxpayers from having to pay to duplicate those majors and instructional programs, said Rep. Kitty Rhoades (R-Hudson), co-chairwoman of the Finance Committee. No “drawbridge” separates the two states, she added.
College students “cross borders for a variety of reasons,” said Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar).
So let me see if I have this right. Minnesota’s tuition costs less than Wisconsin’s tuition. So Wisconsin TAXPAYERS have to send tuition reimbursement to Minnesota which, for some reason, can’t raise its tuition. So Wisconsin students go to UofM knowing they will have cheaper tuition than UW and Wisconsin taxpayers make up the difference.
The measure passed 15-1 in the Joint Finance Committee.
Kudos to the one member who had the wisdom to vote against this moronic proposal. Taxpayers in Wisconsin are now subsidizing TWO Big Ten Schools thanks to the morons in Madistan.
Let me put the proposal in a nutshell so you asshats who voted FOR this proposal can undertand. This sucks big time.
Anyone wonder why Wisconsin is a tax hell spiraling deeper and deeper into the black hole?
dad29 said
I noted that the Education Establishment is a larger contributor to (D) campaign coffers than Big Oil (nationally.)
Education is Far More Important than anything else but The Children–and that inanity pervades the Pubbie “minds” too–
After all, what’s spending? No Big Deal.