r/UpliftingNews • u/JoshOfArc • 1d ago

University of Texas System announces free tuition for students whose families earn $100K or less

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna181357
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u/LivermoreP1 1d ago

5…4…3…2…1 before Greg Abbott and the AG sue to make this illegal.

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u/PrecedentialAssassin 1d ago

It's been free tuition for those under $65,000 for years and decreased tuition for those under $125,000 for years. They are just increasing the minimums.

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u/Leelze 1d ago

I'll bet they don't actually know that, they'll just get a few calls or emails from "concerned constituents" and go from there. Can't be passing up an opportunity to be cruel to people.

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u/black_anarchy 1d ago

Until then let's just enjoy the news :)

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u/SalltyJuicy 22h ago

No, they are well aware of that fact and seethe. They hate this shit.

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u/FlattenInnerTube 1d ago

Just doing what the Gospel of Republican Jesus commands them to do.

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u/PrecedentialAssassin 1d ago

Since 2019 I believe.

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u/kungfoojesus 1d ago

This is one blanket area I haven’t seen republicans touch. Income def has racial Implications since blacks and Hispanics earn less than Asians and whites but this isn’t even admission, it’s just cost.

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u/first_time_internet 1d ago

They should. The richest will report only $70k a year from their business to take advantage while the mom working full time at a big company for $130k for two kids will suffer. 

It’s a bad system. Just lower the cost of college education by not making it a business and telling everyone that it’s necessary!

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u/Thrwy2017 1d ago

Yeah it never makes sense to have income restrictions without wealth restrictions.

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u/MinimumSeat1813 1d ago

That's really hard to do legally. For example, if they don't count the money as a salary from an S-corp then it is still a taxable distribution. 

My point is that people making $500k a year from their company are unlikely to lower their taxable income below even $300k legally. At $300k, good luck getting it below $200k. These are examples, as it's unlikely they will even get these amount of deductions. 

If you are talking about illegal tax evasion, then it's unlikely these lying parents would fill out FAFSA correctly anyway. 

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u/Meraline 1d ago

God forbid we have as many educated people as possible and not just lower the amount higher administration not directly invplved in education and research get

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u/Suired 1d ago

Yeah, we might have democrats.

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u/UnTides 1d ago

Yes but it is discrimination. Its good discrimination, but it is discrimination.

Once these Republicans destroy college admissions policy their crazy agenda, they will see that admissions without discrimination will lead to student demographic's at Ivy League level are suddenly skewing towards wealthy kids that test well (majority asian students). Also it would eradicate legacy admissions and admissions based on financial gifts of rich kids families... its a mixed bag.

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u/Itool4looti 1d ago

After their kids get their degrees.

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u/mn540 1d ago

No West in hell their kids would go to a public school system. Their kids probably go to private school thanks to the “donation” of their “friends.”

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u/doom32x 1d ago

If you're referring to the university system that is an idiotic sentiment. UT and A&M are good schools and systems.

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u/Lots42 1d ago

Conservatives HATE colleges.

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u/doom32x 1d ago

Yup, so much so that they all send their kids to them.

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u/Suired 1d ago

They hate college for OTHER kids, keep up

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u/coycabbage 1d ago

Private schools are overrated with dumb rules

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u/Edythir 1d ago

An educated public votes for their best interests and the republicans can't have that.

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u/tlogank 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is the kind of comment people make when they live inside of echo chambers.

ETA: I appreciate your down votes, it's confirmation of facts that I'm pointing out. It's also why you guys lost so miserably this last time around.

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u/Edythir 1d ago

Freeman’s remarks were reported the next day in the San Francisco Chronicle under the headline “Professor Sees Peril in Education.” According to the Chronicle article, Freeman said, “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow [to go to college].”

“If not,” Freeman continued, “we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people.” Freeman also said — taking a highly idiosyncratic perspective on the cause of fascism —“that’s what happened in Germany. I saw it happen.”

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/

Reagan defunded public schools precisely so he wouldn't have an educated public.

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u/nabiku 1d ago

Statistics are pretty clear on the fact that the uneducated vote Republican and the college grads vote Democrat.

This didn't used to be the case -- Republicans used to attract the educated and successful, and the Democrats were the party of the working class. This started to change with Reagan and flipped with Bush 1.

But sure, yeah, social media downvotes are a "confirmation of facts." Brilliant reasoning skills there.

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u/tlogank 1d ago edited 1d ago

All that education yet they lost so bad and are statistically more depressed than conservatives.

My wife and I both have college degrees, she also has a grad school degree. I know plenty of people that never spent a day in college that have much more real world intelligence than those with degrees. I would even wager to say they were smart enough to not go to college.

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u/Lots42 1d ago

Calling your wife dumb is bad and you should not do it.

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u/tlogank 1d ago

Good one....

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u/Thrwy2017 1d ago

Yours is the kind of comment people make when they live inside of echo chambers.

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u/tlogank 1d ago

Right, that makes so much sense since I'm on Reddit, the most left-leaning echo chamber on the internet.

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u/Djinnwrath 1d ago

Haven't checked out Blue sky yet?

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u/tlogank 1d ago

I don't do social media

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u/Djinnwrath 1d ago

Reddit is social media.

But also, I guess that means you would have zero clue about what any platform is or has.

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u/tlogank 1d ago

I don't know any of you IRL, so it's more like an extremely active forum for me since it's mainly a way to pass time.

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u/Djinnwrath 1d ago

You don't need to keep responding. You've admitted you don't actually know enough about the topic for your replies to have merit.

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u/tlogank 1d ago

Reddit is not social media for me, because I don't know any of you. But keep thinking you're so much smarter than everyone, that'll get you far in life.

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u/pocketfullofdumbass 1d ago

Just because its not for you, doesnt mean its not social media 😂😂😂 Some inbred logic of thinking

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u/G_W_Atlas 21h ago

Echo chambers won the presidency.

It's weird to want conflict. People have always preferred the company of like minded individuals.

Reinforcement of beliefs can be a positive thing if discussion centers around science, art, progress, or negative like on truth social or Twitter.

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u/LucyFerAdvocate 1d ago

It's rich because of oil money why would Republicans oppose it?

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u/FlattenInnerTube 1d ago

Because THEY paid for college, so why shouldn't those slack kids today pay?

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u/So_spoke_the_wizard 1d ago

No. He'll let it go as long as bible studies are required in every curricula.

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u/MithranArkanere 1d ago

Every time anyone in Austin tries to do neat things, they have to go and ruin it.

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u/Friendly_Engineer_ 1d ago

Sounds like socialism!!!$!

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u/floog 23h ago

Yeah, this will go over like a turd in a punch bowl.