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What on earth has happened to American conservatism? It used to be a reliably dour movement, a sober restraint upon the wishful thinking of mushy-minded liberals. But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy. On the domestic side, there is the sugarplum delusion of endless tax cuts and untrammeled government spending. In foreign policy, there is a wildly idealistic pro-democracy jihad. (Iraq will be the first of many dominoes to fall, it is said...
...even students attending public universities have not been immune from tuition rises, as states have been cutting back on higher education appropriations as tax revenues have plummeted over the past several years...
With his promise not to raise taxes, Romney has ruled out a more equitable way of generating revenue: increasing the progressive income tax by reversing Massachusetts’ tax rollbacks of the mid-’90s. But like his promise to save the state more than $2 billion, Romney’s refusal to raise taxes may be especially harmful to the state. That Romney is sacrificing the welfare of the people of Massachusetts for the sake of his campaign promises is a true sign of poor leadership...
...panel brought in people such as Richard Jerue, an executive at the for-profit Education Management Corporation, which operates art and cooking schools. Jerue suggested that “quality and accountability” are ways to assure that tax dollars do not go to waste. Future plans to hold universities accountable for their spending would be tied to “Institutional Report Cards,” which would list “tangible information” such as job-placement rates, average starting salaries, graduate- and professional-school admission rates, passage rates for certification exams, and alumni/student satisfaction...
...American higher education, he could increase federal spending on state schools—especially at a time when state governors are being forced to cut university funding due to the slowing economy. To increase Americans’ access to education, Bush could ask Congress to spend more money on tax benefits to help low-income students afford college. There are many ways to improve education in this country, but Bush’s plan is not one of them...